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High endeavours : the extraordinary life and adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton / Miles Clark.

By: Clark, Miles, 1960- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : HarperCollins, 1992Copyright date: ©1991Description: 447 pages : maps, illustrations, photographs ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0586216995 (paperback); 9780586216996 (paperback).Subject(s): Smeeton, Miles, 1906- | Smeeton, Beryl, 1905-1979 | Adventure and adventurers -- BiographyDDC classification: 910.450922
Contents:
Soldiers, sailors and scholars (1905-1931) -- Horses and hounds (1906-1931) -- Poona (1931-1934) -- A broken vow (1934-1935) -- Across three continents (1935-1937) -- Brief encounters (1937) -- Patagonia solo (1937-1938) -- No ordinary women (1938-1939) -- High plains and biplanes (1939-1941) -- East and west (1941-1942) -- The desert, a reunion and command (1941-1944) -- A charmed life (1944-1945) -- A change of jungles (1946-1950) -- We didn't mean to got to sea (1951-1955) -- Sell up and sail (1955-1956) -- Twice to the horn (1957-1958) -- Around the world in eight years - I (1959-1964) -- Around the world in eight years - II (1964-1968) -- Cape Horn - the hard way (1967-1969) -- Back to land (1969-1974) -- Swansong (1975-1979) -- The bravest years (1980-1988)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 910.450922 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00180371
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Miles Clarke's moving and exhilarating biography establishes Miles and Beryl Smeeton as the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. It is both a love story and an adventure story beyond compare.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Soldiers, sailors and scholars (1905-1931) -- Horses and hounds (1906-1931) -- Poona (1931-1934) -- A broken vow (1934-1935) -- Across three continents (1935-1937) -- Brief encounters (1937) -- Patagonia solo (1937-1938) -- No ordinary women (1938-1939) -- High plains and biplanes (1939-1941) -- East and west (1941-1942) -- The desert, a reunion and command (1941-1944) -- A charmed life (1944-1945) -- A change of jungles (1946-1950) -- We didn't mean to got to sea (1951-1955) -- Sell up and sail (1955-1956) -- Twice to the horn (1957-1958) -- Around the world in eight years - I (1959-1964) -- Around the world in eight years - II (1964-1968) -- Cape Horn - the hard way (1967-1969) -- Back to land (1969-1974) -- Swansong (1975-1979) -- The bravest years (1980-1988)