Description:
Ordinary people, despite major financial and health setbacks, can enjoy the freedom of family holidays ocean sailing to wild places..
Brief description: Jan Mitchell moved from New Zealand to live in Australia in 1970. Since her twenties, Jan has written magazine stories about her sailing adventures, having been published in Personality (South Africa), Cruising World (USA), Australian Sea Spray, Cruising Helmsman, Australian Sailing and Woman's Day. Her other non-fiction books are tinker tailor, soldier, sailor...the life of Colin Kerby OAM, Two in a Top Hat and Hear the Ocean Sing. The latter two books are the first and third volumes of a three part sailing memoir of ocean voyages made by Jan, her husband, Ian, and their two sons.
Review Quotes:
I loved Two in a Top Hat. I was mainly unfamiliar with the voyage until I read it. An amazing adventure by anyone's standard. Re Crossings in Realitas, congratulations are in order. Another excellent sailing publication. Andrew Cortis, sailor.
I couldn't put it down. Read the whole book in two sittings. Bruce Walker, sailor.
Crossings in Realitas is an interesting read about a series of well-conducted voyages that were made with little fuss. It is also a good a reminder of what can be done in a modest boat without many of the trinkets that are now often regarded as essential. If that sort of read appeals, I commend it to you. John Pennefather (sailor).
My wife and I holidayed at Dunk Island a few years ago and loved it as much as you did. I got "Confessions of a Beachcomber" out of our local library on return because we had seen Banfield's gravestone on the island with Thoreau's famous lines which Banfield was supposed to have lived by "... if a man does not keep pace with his companions it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears". I reckon that must just about sum up the way you two look at life as well. Good on you both.