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Mischief among the Penguins: Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.
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'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.'
So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: 'Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double bass in the ship's orchestra'.
With unclimbed ice-capped peaks and anchorages that could at best...