{"product_id":"9781909461338","title":"Mischief goes South: Every herring should hang by its own tail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo observes \u003cb\u003eH.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman\u003c\/b\u003e in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1966, after a succession of eventful and successful voyages in the high latitudes of the \u003cb\u003eArctic\u003c\/b\u003e, Tilman and his pilot cutter \u003ci\u003eMischief\u003c\/i\u003e head south again, this time with the Antarctic Peninsula, \u003cb\u003eSmith Island\u003c\/b\u003e and the unclimbed \u003cb\u003eMount Foster\u003c\/b\u003e in their sights. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMischief goes South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is an account of a voyage marred by tragedy and dogged by crew trouble from the start. Tilman gives ample insight into the difficulties associated with his selection of shipmates and his supervision of a crew, as he wryly notes, \u003ci\u003e‘to have four misfits in a crew of five is too many\u003c\/i\u003e’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second part of this volume contains the author’s account of a gruelling voyage south, an account left unwritten for ten years for lack of time and energy. Originally intended as an expedition to the remote \u003cb\u003eCrozet Islands\u003c\/b\u003e in the southern Indian Ocean, this 1957 voyage evolved into a \u003cb\u003ecircumnavigation of Africa\u003c\/b\u003e, the unplanned consequence of a momentary lapse in attention by an inexperienced helmsman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two voyages described in \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMischief goes South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e covered 43,000 miles over twenty-five months spent at sea and, while neither was deemed successful, published together they give a fine insight into Tilman’s character.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertebrate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154016387312,"sku":"9781909461338","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909461338_p0.jpg?v=1763624339","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909461338","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}