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What Authors Bombard and Gheerbrant suggest, each in his own way. is that there is hardly a greater menace to the adventure of expanding knowledge than ordinary bonsens...
...VOYAGE OF THE HERETIQUE (214 pp.)-Alain Bombard-Simon & Schusfer...
Food in the Sea. Author Alain Bombard's Atlantic adventure, set down in The Voyage of the Heretique, was even more primitive than Gheerbrant's Amazonian hardships. For 65 days and nights, from the Canaries to the West Indies, he was alone on the vast waters of the ocean (TIME. Jan. 5. 1953), living only on the fish and birds he could catch and eat raw and the liquid he could get from...
...save some of the "50,000 people who die each year in lifeboats," Dr. Bombard wanted to give a dramatic demonstration of three unlikely propositions: 1) sea water is drinkable in small quantities for a limited time without ill effects, 2) it is possible to live on the resources of the sea, 3) small craft normally considered unnavigable can be made to reach a predetermined point...
Thirst will.kill a man faster than hunger, but when he had nothing else, Bombard drank small amounts of sea water and felt fine. Apart from rain, however, his basic drink was the juice he squeezed out of the fish he caught. Bombard proved his thesis but not without tremendous suffering. Never did he underestimate the hostility of the sea. He knew that at any moment a single wave could have ended his life, but his frail craft never capsized although mountainous waves sometimes flooded it. He fished and ruminated and read Aeschylus and Spinoza. He was never bored, but perhaps...