![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but the drama that certainly did accompany this maritime feat is hardly there at all. One can admire the man's restraint in not overdramatizing the more perilous episodes of the voyage - capsizing off Australia, rounding the Horn, etc. "British understatement" is an understatement. (I still tear up thinking about it.) I am not especially Anglophilic, but the man and the moment epitomized for this American all that is great and good about England and her people, even if the British Empire ain't what it used to be (which is very likely a good thing).Īlas, almost four decades later, I didn't find Chichester's memoir of the voyage an especially engaging read. I recall the thrill and deep emotion that came over me in 1967 when I saw TV coverage of England welcoming home Francis Chichester (soon to be "Sir Francis") from his "singlehander" circumnavigation of the planet. ![]()
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