Still working my way through Bill Tilman's 7 Mountaineering and Travel books - currently reading the one about the 1938 Everest Expedition. I also highly recommend his Sailing books, about his travels to the Antarctic and Arctic on climbing expeditions on old Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters, particularly Mischief, on which he sailed over 100,000 miles before she sank off Jan Mayen island.
Just started Tristan Jones 'Ice' about about sailing in the Arctic. I'm told some of it needs to be taken with 'apinch of salt'! He may have exaggerated his achievements somewhat.
Rereading this thread just now, I noticed mention of Maurice Griffiths' East Coast sailing stories - books, I have read a couple of times, and will read again - and Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World, which I must reread one day.
