Book description
In 1992, John Beattie set out to sail around the world. Joined at
times by an assortment of exotic characters - including a parrot
called Hamish and the former Beirut hostage Brian Keenan - the joys
and travails of his journey are depicted with complete honesty. But be
it a storm at sea, a single-handed Atlantic crossing, or a near
shipwreck in an uncharted jungle river, his humour and fortitude shine
through.
A compelling travelogue, a voyage of the spirit and a love story,
The Breath of Angels is also a tale which might never have
been told but for one chance-in-a-million encounter. Once day at dawn,
a man lay dying of thirst in an open boat that had been swept out to
sea - his partner had already died in his arms. In the gloom of the
early morning light he sees a tiny fleck of white on the distant
horizon. The Warrior Queen is homeward bound from Venezuela and
the dying man has one last slender chance of life . . .
