North-West by North: A Journal of a Voyage

It was a strange crew and an even stranger craft, the clumsy thirty-four-foot cutter Skaga, which set sail from Newcastle, Australia, in 1932.

Dora Birtles was one of the five on board -- three women and two men -- whose dream it was to sail to Singapore by way of New Guinea and the Java Sea. Much more than a diary of an adventure, this extraordinary book reveals the events played out between the five people on board.