Posted by Lionel Hill on April 17, 2001 at 12:08:57 from 165.228.130.12:
In Reply to: Audrey de Selincourt's books posted by John Wilson on April 10, 2001 at 11:11:17:
Thanks John. A Capful of Wind is a retrospective non fiction written just after the war. It gives many insights into his children's series of eight. It is full of longing for the old days and the charm of Brixham trawlers. It refers to AR in two places, from memory, but doesn't refer to his children'r books which I find puzzling. Did AR ever refer to him other than to commend the chapter on the coming of a breeze after a calm in A Capful of Wind and reprinted in AR: Blue Water Sailing? One of Aubrey de Selincourt's references to AR is in a chapter on sea literature (about which he has strong ideas, he did an anthology, The Book of the Sea in 1961. He refers to Racundra's First Cruise as a continual delight.