Acclaimed British journalist turned author Simon Winchester invites listeners to join him as he explores the Atlantic Ocean.

"When she was in her forties, recovering from depression and alcoholism, Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber existence - a house in Cardiff, Wales, and a responsible job at the BBC - for life aboard a small yacht with her husband, Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his midsixties." "After buying a yacht - Jameeleh - and teaching themselves to sail it (a process not without its fair share of disasters,...

A collection of sixteen personal essays that chronicle two-and-a-half decades of voyaging into remote destinations, from the fiords of northern Labrador to the ice fields of western Greenland, from the outports of Newfoundland to the fishing villages of Iceland and the Faroe Isles.

Chris Stewart had a long and eclectic list of jobs. From some of the most glamorous careers - he was original drummer in Genesis - to the more offbeat - a sheep shearer and circus performer - he had done it all...or almost all. So when he is offered the chance to captain a sailboat in the Greek islands one summer, something he had never done before, he jumps at the chance. Ever the optimist, Stewart is undaunted by the fact that he'd never actually...

When Fielding was winched aboard the Queen of Portugal bound for Lisbon in June 1754 he had small hope of surviving even the milder Portuguese winter. The author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones was 'dying from a complication of disorders' and the gravity of his illness sparks the unflinching humour and pathos of the Journal. In it Fielding scrutinizes his body's decay and the corruption of English society, undercutting with irony his own high claims...