Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the
classics to
piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but
for the most part he
draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible
for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.
I cleaned out my closet yesterday (again) and as I sifted through all my clothing, I realized the older I get the more I'm
drawn to
classic pieces — as in items I will have
for a while and not get sick of within a year.