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The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea

The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea - Paperback

by A. J. MacKinnon
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Availability:In StockContributor:A. J. MacKinnonPublish date:2002-05-01Pages:356
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sheridan HouseISBN-13:9781574091526ISBN-10:1574091522UPC:9781574091526Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Water Sports, Adventurers & ExplorersBook Topic:SailingSize:8.74 x 6.25 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCK1G7YSA8
Mackinnon recounts his own fascinating journey from north Wales to the Black Sea in a small Mirror dinghy. A marvelous madcap adventure, told with verve and humor by the indefatigable 'captain.'
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sheridan HouseISBN-13:9781574091526ISBN-10:1574091522UPC:9781574091526Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Water Sports, Adventurers & ExplorersBook Topic:SailingSize:8.74 x 6.25 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCK1G7YSA8
A.J. Mackinnon was born in Australia in 1963. He got hDiploma in Education and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Linguistics and Anglo-Saxon from the University of Adelaide. His teaching career started at Westminster school, Adelaide, where he taught English and Drama for four years. AFter this time he traveled overland England by yacht, hitch-hiking, river-canoe and even horseback-spending a brief time in a Chinese prison after accidentally swimming into China and being attacked by Komodo Dragons, amongst other experiences.

In England he taught at Sherborne and Cheltenham before becoming Head of Drama at Ellesmere College, Shropshire, where he also taught English. From Ellesmere he launched his unlikely voyage aboard his dinghy Jack de Crow. He is currently teaching English and Drama at Geelong Grammar School in Australia where he also coaches sailing.
Publisher: Sheridan House

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