Salty tales for stay-at-homes

Voyaging the Pacific, Miles Horden’s account of sailing between his native NZ and Patagonia, reviewed in Japan’s Daily Yomiuri. “Miles Horden’s book … is a cracking good yarn, mainly because he is such a solid writer; modest, knowledgeable and subtle without making a big thing out of those qualities – in contrast to, say, Bruce Chatwin. There is a huge amount of interesting stuff compressed within these pages, about South Pacific and South American culture, about maritime etiquette and lore, and most of all about the moods of the sea and the effect they have on the solitary sailor … This is a book to be savoured slowly, and only if you don’t mind being made to feel a boring and unadventurous stay-at-home.”