The Temptress voyages

In a single volume, Edward Allcard's epic two crossings of the Atlantic in the mid-twentieth century in his thirty-four-foot, forty-year-old yawl Temptress. Whether describing the pleasures or the trials, the phosphorescent nights or the storms, the opera- tion of his ship or his own introspections, Edward Allcard eloquently conveys his deep appreciation of the sea, and the escape from modern civilisation it offers him.