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Mingming II and the Islands of the Ice

English · Paperback / Softback

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Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he encounters everything from walruses to inquisitive humpback whales to massive ice cliffs, and nearly rescues a beautiful Russian girl from Bear Island. On his way back he makes his third visit to the island of Jan Mayen, deep in the Norwegian Sea, and there fulfils a long-held ambition.

Acutely observational and well-laced with Taylor's wry humour, the book is as much an exploration of what is possible with one man, one simple boat and one home-made sail, as a journey to some of the planet's bleakest and most beautiful islands.

About the author










Roger Taylor was born in Heywood, Lancashire, England and now lives in the Wirral. He is a chartered civil and structural engineer, a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, an instructor/student in a highly personalised form of aikido (heavily influenced by tai chi and systema) and, not least, an enthusiastic and loud but bone-jarringly inaccurate piano player.

Ostensibly fantasy, his major work - the twelve books of the 'Chronicles of Hawklan' - is much more than it seems and has been called 'subtly subversive'. He has also written Aikido - More Than a Martial Art, the fantasy novel The Keep, Newman which he describes as 'odd', and Travellers which is science fiction.

Product details

Authors Roger Taylor, Roger D. Taylor
Publisher Troubador Publishing Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2016
 
EAN 9780955803574
ISBN 978-0-9558035-7-4
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
Weight 308 g
Subjects Guides > Sport > Water sport, sailing
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering

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