Contents

1. Title page
2. Dedication
3. Foreword by Colin Matthews
4. Author’s Note
5. A train was travelling northwards …
6. He is to climb at last.
7. The jerk woke the sleeper …
8. It was when, in response to the bugle …
9. It is the moment between dusk and dark …
10. The next morning …
11. Hempson and Pyce …
12. Edward, exploring …
13. The gale blew …
14. Promptly at eleven …
15. That night the wind dropped …
16. Later that night …
17. As he had gone about his rounds …
18. The night as most of the passengers …
19. The unfamiliarity of shipboard days …
20. Edward also spent time in his cabin …
21. So of course he sat in vain …
22. In token of the latitude …
23. The shipboard ritual …
24. Next morning …
25. Very early next day …
26. From then on …
27. Like many of the others …
28. The pretty settlement of Santarem …
29. Frau von Pussels had be posting a notice …
30. She laid down her pen …
31. A spotless cream panama hat …
32. But within half an hour …
33. Miles Moss arrived punctually …
34. And an afternoon sitting on deck …
35. He crossed the Atlantic in full retreat …
36. Epilogue
37. About the Author
38. By the same author
39. Copyright