Reviews

"Everything Belloc touched turns to magic for me. This book, however, is the closest the great man ever came to autobiography."-Roger Buck, author of The Gentle Traditionalist (Angelico Press, 2015) "Belloc thought that the cruising of a boat is akin to the adventure of a human soul... undertaken with purpose yet subject to innumerable diversions; aided by unforeseen blessings and opportunities yet troubled by terrible anxieties. Abroad on the sea provides the full model and symbol of human life, and thus the suitable setting for the chance thoughts of one human being."-Karl Schmude, author of Hilaire Belloc (CTS Biographies, 2009) "The yacht seems to stop at intervals to make meditations on all sorts of subjects-capitalism, the Great War, Catholicism, and the rest-the various points of the author's many-sided philosophy. Then it gives, as it were a twist of the tiller and returns to its jibs and booms."-A. E. Clery, politician, professor, and contemporary of Belloc