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...friends, editors and agents speak constantly of his ambition, his frustration and his need for additional advances. The letters also attest to Conrad's unbounded faith in his talent. "I too hope to find my place in the rear of my betters," Conrad wrote, echoing Rostand's Cyrano. "But still my place...
...reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions continue in rotation, Michael York will open on July 27 in the lead of the third play, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac...
...allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume, The Dark Design, drop some clues about the creators...
...summer of 1975, William F. Buckley Jr. made an Atlantic crossing - chronicled in his book Airborne - aboard his 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Says Buckley: "All adventure is now reactionary." With loran, radar, autopilot and vintage wines, Buckley was not exactly blown across the ocean on a naked raft. Even the most venturesome solitary sailors today - men like Sir Francis Chichester, who circumnavigated the globe in 1966-67 in his 53-ft. boat Gipsy Moth IV - have the advantage of sophisticated hull and sail design. Says Tristan Jones, a small, bearded Welsh sailor who has circumnavigated the globe three times, crossed...
...Cyrano's Atlantic crossing, the whims of wind and water were taken in experienced strides; the works of man, however, caused considerable difficulty. Sophisticated electronic equipment mysteriously refused to operate. Partly in consequence, Buckley fills his pages with freshets of information about ocean cruising. He makes a useful distinction between "expertise" and "expertness." In the spirit of 19th century British intellectual noblesse oblige, he simply and clearly explains marine navigation. As skipper he is heavy on object lessons, especially in matters of boat safety. Two people lost their lives while sailing Cyrano under charter: a scuba diver died...