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Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar Libby Purves

Mischief Among the Penguins Paperback

Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.

Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar, Libby Purves, Tom Cunliffe

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Tilman
01 March 2022

True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; Sailing; Climbing & mountaineering; Classic travel writing

Series: H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition

'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure'

So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H W 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience - 'Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary playing double bass in the ship's orchestra'.

With unclimbed ice-capped peaks and anchorages that could at best be described as challenging, the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and Kerguelen provided obvious destinations for Tilman and his fifty-year-old pilot cutter Mischief. His previous attempt to land in the Crozet Islands had been abandoned when their only means of landing was carried away by a severe storm in the Southern Ocean. Back at Lymington, a survey of the ship uncovered serious Teredo worm damage. Tilman, undeterred, sold his car to fund the rebuilding work and began planning his third sailing expedition to the southern hemisphere.

Mischief among the Penguins, Tilman's account of landfalls on these tiny, remote volcanic islands, bears testament to the development of his ocean navigation skills and seamanship. The accounts of the island anchorages, their snow-covered heights, geology, and in particular the flora and fauna, pay tribute to the varied interests and ingenuity of Mischief's crew, not least after several months at sea when food supplies needed to be eked out.

Tilman's writing style, rich with informative and entertaining quotations, highlights the lessons learned with typical self-deprecating humour, while playing down the immensity of his achievements.

AUTHOR: Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898-1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else. Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton and began their famed mountaineering partnership, traversing Mount Kenya and climbing Kilimanjaro. Turning to the Himalaya, Tilman went on two Mount Everest expeditions, reaching 27,000 feet without oxygen in 1938. In 1936 he made the first ascent of Nanda Devi-the highest mountain climbed until 1950. He was the first European to climb in the remote Assam Himalaya, he delved into Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor and he explored extensively in Nepal, all the while developing a mountaineering style characterised by its simplicity and emphasis on exploration. It was perhaps logical then that Tilman would eventually buy the pilot cutter Mischief-not with the intention of retiring from travelling, but to access remote mountains. For twenty-two years Tilman sailed Mischief and her successors to Patagonia, where he crossed the vast ice cap, and to Baffin Island to make the first ascent of Mount Raleigh. He made trips to Greenland, Spitsbergen and the South Shetlands, before disappearing in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1977.

By: Major H. W. Tilman CBE DSO MC Bar
Afterword by: Tom Cunliffe
Foreword by: Libby Purves
Imprint: Tilman
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 325g
ISBN: 9781909461208
ISBN 10: 1909461202
Series: H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Foreword – Libby Purves 7 I The Crew and the Ship 11 II Choosing an Objective 22 III Early Days 33 IV Las Palmas and Southwards 41 V Cape Town 56 VI In the Southern Ocean 70 VII Possession Island 86 VIII Possession Island: An Earlier Visitor 98 IX The Mountains of Possession Island 109 X Kerguelen 121 XI To the Ice-Cap 130 XII Port aux Fran.ais 145 XIII To Cape Town 157 XIV A False Start 166 XV Homeward Bound 176 Afterword: The Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter — Tom Cunliffe 189

Harold William ‘Bill’ Tilman (1898–1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else. Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton and began their famed mountaineering partnership, traversing Mount Kenya and climbing Kilimanjaro. Turning to the Himalaya, Tilman went on two Mount Everest expeditions, reaching 27,000 feet without oxygen in 1938. In 1936 he made the first ascent of Nanda Devi – the highest mountain climbed until 1950. He was the first European to climb in the remote Assam Himalaya, he delved into Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor and he explored extensively in Nepal, all the while developing a mountaineering style characterised by its simplicity and emphasis on exploration. It was perhaps logical then that Tilman would eventually buy the pilot cutter Mischief – not with the intention of retiring from travelling, but to access remote mountains. For twenty-two years Tilman sailed Mischief and her successors to Patagonia, where he crossed the vast ice cap, and to Baffin Island to make the first ascent of Mount Raleigh. He made trips to Greenland, Spitsbergen and the South Shetlands, before disappearing in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1977.