Triumph and Tribulation: No ship should be without Tabasco sauce

'Experience is said to be the name men give to their mistakes and of the experience I gained in Spitsbergen that may well be true.'

The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages described in H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's fifteenth and final book, a remarkable example of Tilman's ability to triumph when supported by a crew game for all challenges. The 1974 voyage of the pilot cutter Baroque takes Tilman to his furthest north—the highest latitude of any of his travels in the norther...