things you don't want to hear after the book is in print
Oh dear.
Reasonable query from Swedish translator, re Empire of Ivory chapter 6: What place does this line refer to?
What was worse, their officers corrected them none too sharply for their hesitation, with predictable results: off the coast of the Horn she missed stays, and had to be hurriedly box-hauled
Why, Cape Horn, of course, I blithely reply, meaning the tip of South America, which is what the Horn automatically means to me (and I would imagine to anyone else who reads 19th c. naval adventu
Reasonable query from Swedish translator, re Empire of Ivory chapter 6: What place does this line refer to?
What was worse, their officers corrected them none too sharply for their hesitation, with predictable results: off the coast of the Horn she missed stays, and had to be hurriedly box-hauled
Why, Cape Horn, of course, I blithely reply, meaning the tip of South America, which is what the Horn automatically means to me (and I would imagine to anyone else who reads 19th c. naval adventu
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