Regular LQ contributor and author of such books as Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester described in our Sea issue a few of his journeys wandering “ceaselessly about on the world's oceans…in all weathers and seasons and climates.” On the LQ podcast, he tells more of his favorite tales from a life at sea.
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