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In his third book singlehanded sailor Roger Taylor ventures to even more remote seas aboard his tiny junk-rigged yacht Mingming. The first voyage- across the North Atlantic to Baffin Island- is curtailed when Taylor is injured in a storm in the Davis Strait. Unwilling to sail on into the ice with a broken rib- he turns round and re-crosses the Atlantic to Plymouth- completing a non-stop voyage of over 4000 miles. The second voyage takes the reader to Jan Mayen- Spitsbergen and on to 80 North- virtually as close as it is possible to sail to the North Pole. During these two voyages Taylor spends well over four months at sea- observing and reflecting on the sea itself- its wildlife- its attraction- and mans uneasy relationship with it....