Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing (paperback)

Having set the scene in his first book Tales of a Simple Sailor, Roger D. Taylor embarks seriously on reinventing small boat ocean sailing in Mingming, his 21-foot engineless junk rigged sailboat.

He turns his attention north, for the first of the Arctic voyages which will make him famous - feeling his way, honing his approach - and sailing solo non-stop, under sail only, from Essex to the Faroes, Iceland, Rockall and back to the UK.

Next comes his second Jester Challenge. Here we see Roger get fully into his stride with Mingming on a long run from the UK to the Azores and back. Trouble is met but we get the feeling Roger is at last becoming master of his own game. We wonder, what next?

Sure enough, he goes north again, this time with the ambition he becomes known for. Roger is determined to go much further north than he has before, well into the Arctic, this time risking encounters with the ice itself…

Carron River Verdict

Mingming & the Art... is so much more than a tale of invention and first-class seamanship.

The storytelling is vivid, fabulously observant, and peppered with revealing leaps of the lone-sailor’s imagination - as little Mingming is in turns oppressed, battered, then bounding joyously onward.

The encounters with whales are among the most extraordinary scenes you will read of the sea.

The bestselling of Roger’s books, with an assured place in the canon of adventure literature.

The Author

Roger D. Taylor is renowned for sailing small yachts, alone, with no engine, to far flung seas in the Arctic. He has been awarded the Jester Medal by the Ocean Cruising Club. For his writing he is a winner of the Prix Henri Queffélec and the Prix Albatros.

What you get

This is a quality paperback with a nice hand-drawn map and photographs.

Author: Roger D. Taylor

NEW paperback; 360 pages and 33 B&W images

Published by The FitzRoy Press

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