A tilmanism which becomes more appropriate with advancing years.
Tilman the baker and brewer Much has been written of Tilman s attitude to food, diet and expedition rations. Less well known, except to those who visited him at home in Barmouth, were his abilities as both a baker and brewer. Lunch at Bodowen particularly welcome after a wet hitch-hike down from Bangor centred [ ]
Passage plan Lymington Frederikshaab Nanortalik Julianhaab Arsuk Ivigtut Prins Christian Sund Lymington Crew: Colin Putt AustraliaIain Dillon New ZealandBob Comlay UKAndrew Harwich (Cook) UK The Bristol Pilot Cutter Sea Breeze at the Berthon Boat Yard, Lymington, shortly before we sailed at the end of May 1970. The deck [ ]
A few notes on life aboard Tilman s Pilot Cutters This page contains notes on life aboard the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Sea Breeze , based on my experiences of the 1970 and 1971 Greenland voyages with Bill Tilman. If you re here because you know of the subjects, then I need explain no more. However, if you re [ ]
A highly decorated military leader, his covert operations behind enemy lines with Albanian partisans during the second World War are covered in Where Men and Mountains Meet , while his survival of the brutality of the Great War is quickly dismissed in the opening paragraph of his first book Snow on the Equator : To those [ ]