{"product_id":"9781909461178","title":"Mischief in Patagonia: An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ heads steam when they eat marmalade.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo responded \u003cb\u003eH. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman\u003c\/b\u003e to his own realisation that the \u003cb\u003eHimalaya\u003c\/b\u003e were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude for the romance of the sea with, at his journey’s end, mountains and glaciers at a smaller scale; and the less explored they were, the better he would like it. Within a couple of years he had progressed from sailing a 14-foot dinghy to his own 45-foot pilot cutter \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e, readied for her deep-sea voyaging, and recruited a crew for his most ambitious of private expeditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell past her prime, \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e carried Tilman, along with an ex-dairy farmer, two army officers and a retired civil servant, safely the length of the \u003cb\u003eNorth and South Atlantic oceans\u003c\/b\u003e, and through the notoriously difficult \u003cb\u003eMagellan Strait\u003c\/b\u003e, against strong prevailing winds, to their icy landfall in the far south of \u003cb\u003eChile\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shore party spent six weeks crossing the \u003cb\u003ePatagonian ice cap\u003c\/b\u003e, in both directions, returning to find that their vessel had suffered a broken propeller. Edging north under sail only, \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e put into Valparaiso for repairs, and finally made it home to Lymington via the \u003cb\u003ePanama Canal\u003c\/b\u003e, for a total of 20,000 nautical miles sailed, in addition to a major exploration ‘first’ all here related with the skipper’s characteristic modesty and bone-dry humour, and many photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertebrate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154240127216,"sku":"9781909461178","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909461178_p0.jpg?v=1763624336","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909461178","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}