"I am now off to sail the English seas again, and to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied one human soul, and of these some will be of profit to one man and some to another, and most, I suppose, to none at all."
So writes Hilaire Belloc in The Cruise of the Nona, a beautiful and boisterous travelogue based on a voyage in his own sailing boat. Recently republished in a beautiful new edition, this oceanic escape deserves renewed attention.
Unlike Chesterton, Belloc didn’t just write about having adventures – he actually had them.
