{"product_id":"9781909461291","title":"Mostly Mischief: Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMostly Mischief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by \u003cb\u003eH.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman\u003c\/b\u003e covering almost 25,000 miles in both \u003cb\u003eArctic\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAntarctic\u003c\/b\u003e waters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first sees the pilot cutter \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e retracing the steps of \u003cb\u003eElizabethan explorer John Davis\u003c\/b\u003e to the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. Tilman and a companion land on the north coast and make the hazardous crossing of \u003cb\u003eBylot Island\u003c\/b\u003e while the remainder of the crew make the eventful passage to the southern shore to recover the climbing party. Back in England, Tilman refuses to accept the condemnation of \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e’s surveyor, undertaking costly repairs before heading back to sea for a first encounter with the \u003cb\u003eEast Greenland\u003c\/b\u003e ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween June 1964 and September 1965, Tilman is at sea almost without a break. Two eventful voyages to East Greenland in \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e provide the entertaining bookends to his account of the five-month voyage in the Southern Ocean as skipper of the schooner \u003ci\u003ePatanela\u003c\/i\u003e. Tilman had been hand-picked by the expedition leader as the navigator best able to land a team of Australian and New Zealand climbers and scientists on \u003cb\u003eHeard Island\u003c\/b\u003e, a tiny volcanic speck in the Furious Fifties devoid of safe anchorages and capped by an unclimbed glaciated peak. In a separate account of this successful voyage, Colin Putt describes the expedition as unique—the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertebrate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153997971696,"sku":"9781909461291","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909461291_p0.jpg?v=1763624018","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909461291","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}