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Summary:The first leg of the journey takes Adam through one of the most wreck-strewn stretches of water in Britain, from Falmouth to the Scilly Isles. Immediately confronted by a force seven storm, he eventually arrives in the Scillys to find a community who have, over the centuries, come to rely on the bounty that shipwrecks bring for their own survival. He dives on what may prove to be the oldest shipwreck in Britain, and on Lundy Island abseils over a 100-foot cliff in search of Britain's rarest endemic plant, the Lundy cabbage, the entire world distribution of which is reserved to 100 metres of Lundy coastline.
Description:Writer and novice sailor Adam Nicholson sails the length of Atlantic Britain,from the Scilly Isles to Orkney,in search of the strange and unusual people who,battered by the most extreme weather and seas in the world,cling to the edge of Europe.