The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books
ON the Great Lakes and along the New England coast, William Albert Robinson first learned to sail. Born in Wisconsin twenty-nine years ago, he came to Massachusetts for his education; in Winchester and in Lowell he was trained as a textile engineer, and in between times he sailed the waters between Boston and New York and participated in two Bermuda races. Early in 1928 he bought a 32-foot, ketch for a thousand dollars and spent another thousand having her overhauled. This was the modest beginning of a great, exploit. For in the Svaap Mr. Robinson then proceeded to encircle the globe, navigating his way 32,000 miles on a voyage that lasted three years, five and a half months.