Once is Enough (The Sailor's Classics #6)

Miles Smeeton was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1906. In 1939, he and his wife Beryl attempted to climb 25, 263-foot Tirich Mir with Tenzing Norgay. Although they failed, Beryl achieved renown as one of the first women to climb so high. A career army officer, Smeeton served with distinction in World War II. After the war, the Smeetons and their daughter Clio moved to a small farm in British Columbia. In 1951, the Smeetons bought Tzu Hang in England and, though they had just learned to sail, sailed her back to Canada. Sailing won out over farming, and in 1955 the Smeetons sold the farm and kept the boat. They next voyaged from Canada to the South Pacific, and Miles later wrote about that adventure in The Sea Was Our Village. After sending Clio to school in England, Miles and Beryl Smeeton embarked on the voyage described in Once Is Enough. In 1967, they made a third -- and this time successful -- Cape Horn attempt, sailing east to west. The Smeetons then sold Tzu Hang and founded the Cochrane Ecological Institute in Alberta, Canada, still run by their daughter Jonathan Raban is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the editor of The Oxford Book of the Sea, and author of ten critically acclaimed books. He is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Heinemann Award for Literature, and received the New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year for Old Glory and Bad LandSmeeton, Miles is the author of 'Once is Enough (The Sailor's Classics #6)' with ISBN 9780071382199 and ISBN 0071382194.