(All these Picador books! When I was in a hurry I used to just pick any book from the Picador rack. Smallcreep, Turtle Diary, and several others mentioned were Picadors.)
I've enjoyed other Eric Newby books too. The Last Grain Race describes one of the last voyages on a sailing clipper, just before WW2.
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