Moments of ecstatic ease
Nicolson challenges our perceptions of people in the past, what they felt and what motivated them to embark on often...
A sense of happiness in the light of spring
What a beautiful corrective lens for the 'nasty, short and brutish' view of distant human lives. I did not realise...
Leadership as multi-tasking
You get to steer the ship because you can handle multiple tasks at once. Here, John demonstrates his leadership skills:...
Do what a hero must
Naturally, any would-be hero or heroine needs to set sail, or how are they to prove their worth? Clive James,...
Like fluid sculptures
A fine idea to describe a flotilla of sail boats, as liquid sculptures, and note too that passing flock of...
The tide running with you and the sun out
How many times I've read about exploration, about getting in a boat or a ship and chancing it, and yet...
As cold as …
A letter from Keats to his beloved Fanny, with a kindly injunction to wrap up warmly. I loved the solicitude...
A blank map
‘You’ll start with a blank map, that doesn’t do more than show roughly what’s water and what...
Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
Sailing away on a summer day
Having built up a treasury of thousand of quotations, we recently concluded we have enough magical material to begin presenting...
A waste of an island
Wonderful notion this, from one of the best of Ransome's enchanting children's books. Of course if you land on an...
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