FIRST VOYAGE IN A SQUARE-RIGGED • SHIP By Commander Frank
Worsley
Commander Worsley has already established himself as an author of no mean ability by his two books on Shackleton expeditions. First Voyage in a Square-Rigged Ship (Bles, los. 6d.) is announced by the publishers as his autobiography, but actually, as its title suggests, it covers little more than his first voyage from New- Zealand to England in a wind- jammer and back again. The first two chapters give a picture of pioneering days •in New Zealand (his grandfather went out there in 1851 with a large family), and his own very wild childhood spent in the bush and later at sChoolin Christchurch. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the New Zealand Shipping CoMPany; and his detailed description of his first voyage in the Wairoa from Christchurch via Cape Horn to the West India Dock in London should be read by. all those interested in the good old days of sail. It is written in an easy _racy:style and with -all-the enthusiasm. gf the boy,lte then was, and a very pleasant personality emerges from its pages.
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