Stranded in Panama after the war, John Caldwell set out for Sydney to rejoin his wife Mary, whom he had not seen since their three-day honeymoon over a year before. Unable to secure any other form of transport he had to resort to single-handed sailing. After having spent ten days learning the rudiments of sailing and navigation from a book he embarked on a 9000 mile journey aboard the 20-foot "Pagan". Ahead lay a mission that was to reveal in him elements not only of astounding courage and determination but also of incredible foolhardiness. Having been shipwrecked once, his boat's engine and cockpot destroyed by an a shark, he pressed on.
- ISBN10 0713649100
- ISBN13 9780713649109
- Publish Date 19 December 1997 (first published 25 January 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Adlard Coles Nautical
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English