The Wind Off The Island

The Wind Off The Island by Ernle Bradford


Publisher: Harcourt Brace and World, 1960Hardcover
5.5 x 8.35 inches, 191 pages

An account of the voyage of the sailing craft "Mother Goose" in the waters off Sicily and the Greek Islands-------------
Ernle Bradford continues the seafaring adventure he launched in "The Journeying Moon". Bradford fans will remember that In that book he and his wife traded in their land-bound life for a life at sea and took off.-------------
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922, Cole Green, Norfolk, England – 8 May 1986, Malta) was a noted 20th-century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics.

The son of Jocelyn Ernle Sydney Patton Bradford and his wife, Ada Louise Dusgate, Bradford was educated in England at Uppingham School. He also served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first Lieutenant of a destroyer.

A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there. His book, The Journeying Moon describes some of these voyages. It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, Mischief, to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes. Bradford lived in Kalkara, Malta for a number of years. Sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was a prolific author