Practical seamanship
and boatbuilding
UP
THE CREEK
A Lifetime spent trying to be a sailor
TONY JAMES
Up The Creek charts Tony James'
unintentional voyage from his father's broad-bean bed, in land locked
Derbyshire, to a marina in Somerset via the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf
and the bottom of a swimming pool in Ottery St Mary.On the way Tony
gathers a motley crew of unforgettable eccentrics and 
maritime
misfits, brought to a hilarious life by his acute observation of the
ridiculous and by his wry acceptance that whatever happens at sea, things
can only get worse. The funniest and most original sailing book for
years.
Tony James is a freelance journalist
and writer. Formerly he was a theatrical entrepreneur, magazine agony
aunt, crime writer, Fleet Street editor and education correspondent
of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner. The author of over twenty books he still
writes regularly for thirty publications world-wide.
Tony
lives with his partner Vivienne on the edge of Exmoor. When not at sea
he plays jazz trombone and makes model boats. Over the last fifty years
he has sailed the equivalent of twice round the world, stopping off
as often as possible for chocolate cake. He still doesn't know why he
goes sailing.
216 x 135 mms • 220 pages Illus • ISBN 0 9547062 7 7• Price: £9.95 pbk
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