High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton

Clark, Miles

ISBN 10: 0586216995 / ISBN 13: 9780586216996

Published by HarperCollins, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0586216995
• ISBN 13: 9780586216996
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Miles and Beryl Smeeton were the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century, living a charmed existence filled with passion. Armchair travelers will embrace their exceptional story, which visits exotic locales ranging from Poona and Patagonia to Alexandria and Cape Horn. With maps and photographs. ".a remarkable book.intimate and affectionate.engrossing.A life told here in such poignant and well-described detail that it has something of the luminous quality of a myth."—Jonathan Raban. 6 X 9. 33 b/w illus.

About the Author

Miles Clark was a writer/photographer and former features editor of Yachting Monthly. In 1981 he led a Cambridge research expedition to Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands—seaking evidence for the existence of a marine mammal positively identified by the early explorers and 200 years later by Miles and Beryl Smeeton—for which he was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Bish Medal. A keen offshore yachtsman, he lived in Northern Ireland. Miles Clark died in 1993.