The unlikely voyage of Jack de Crow : a mirror odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea / by A.J. Mackinnon.

By: Mackinnon, A. J. (Alexander James), 1963- [author].

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BookPublisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Dobbs Ferry, NY : Seafarer Books ; Sheridan House, [2002]Description: 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1574091522 (USA); 0953818055 (UK).Other title: Jack de Crow.Subject(s): Jack de Crow (Dinghy)

| Sailing -- English Channel

| Sailing -- Europe

| Sailing -- Black Sea

| Voyages and travels

DDC classification: 910.916336

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Sandy Mackinnon was born in Australia where he continues to coach sailing to staff and students at the Geelong Grammer School.

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Library Journal Review

More nutty stunts come from the British Isles than from anywhere else on earth, and the escapade Australian-born Mackinnon recounts here is as addled as anyone's. One day, he stepped into a dinghy, intending to sail a few hundred miles down the Severn River, stopping at pubs and having a lark for a few days. He named his little craft Jack de Crow in honor of his childhood dream of owning a tame crow (not a cuckoo?). To make a short story even shorter, he passed up most of the pubs in England, almost got gored by a bull, sank Jack in a drunken stupor, patched the little boat back up, battled pirates, and landed in Romania. Loaded with self-deprecating humor and one giddy adventure after another, this fun account of Mackinnon's voyage is definitely for armchair travelers. as it is highly unlikely that anyone would be wacky enough to use this book as a guide to try a similar stunt. Highly recommended for all public libraries.-Joseph L. Carlson, Allan Hancock Coll., CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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A.J. Mackinnon was born in Australia in 1963. He got hDiploma in Education and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Linguistics and Anglo-Saxon from the University of Adelaide. His teaching career started at Westminster school, Adelaide, where he taught English and Drama for four years. AFter this time he traveled overland England by yacht, hitch-hiking, river-canoe and even horseback-spending a brief time in a Chinese prison after accidentally swimming into China and being attacked by Komodo Dragons, amongst other experiences.In England he taught at Sherborne and Cheltenham before becoming Head of Drama at Ellesmere College, Shropshire, where he also taught English. From Ellesmere he launched his unlikely voyage aboard his dinghy Jack de Crow. He is currently teaching English and Drama at Geelong Grammar School in Australia where he also coaches sailing.