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Holy Island

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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is a renowned sailor and author

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The foreword by quadruple Olympic gold medallist Sir Ben Ainslie highlights its credibility as a go-to sailing guide

Racundra's Third Cruise peter white Holy IslandMost people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic children's sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, and many other books in the same series. But besides his exciting tales of children on the water there is much more to the man. Before he wrote Swallows & Amazons, Ransome was a journalist for the Daily News, based in Russia. He is reputed to have played chess against Lenin and he married Trotsky's secretary. He cruised extensively in the Baltic