This book is dedicated to all those who love the sea and adventure and are not insensible to the lure of distant places, and especially to the legion of armchair sailors who for many a reason can only cruise through the written word.This enthralling collection, illustrated and edited with notes, of the writings of some of the lone sea wanderers of the past hundred years, allows us to sail with the Hiscocks, with Francis Chichester, with Voss, McMullen, Tambs, Guzzwell and many others.