The Ulysses Factor: The Exploring... by J. R. L. Anderson 1970 1st Ed. Hardback
The Ulysses Factor - The exploring instinct in man\nJohn Richard Lane Anderson (17 June 1911 \u2013 21 August 1981) was a British journalist, sailor, and prolific author. After a number of short-term jobs, including a period in the Indian Army, Anderson joined The Guardian where he remained for the rest of his career.\nHe began to write books seriously in the 1960s, with a special interest in stories of real life adventure on the sea. He reported on Francis Chichester's voyages and edited Chichester's Atlantic Adventure in 1962. In 1966, he was the leader of a Guardian-sponsored crew that sailed a cutter from England to North America in order to replicate Leif Erikson's voyage, and in 1967 he published an account of the journey.\nHe also produced topographical, children's, and other works but is best known for his Peter Blair and Piet Deventer mysteries, the last of which, Late Delivery, was published posthumously in 1982.\nHe published a volume of poems, The Lost Traveller, in 1931,;
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