Scratch A Salcombe Boy

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An inspiring tale of one man's courage and determination...</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Easter 1963</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. The end of the school holidays are approaching but instead of returning to school Billy Scratch Hitchen ran away to sea - he was just fourteen years old. Before the age of nineteen he had sailed around the world five times.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Scratch Salcombe Boy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> takes us on a wild ride around the world: from the mountainous seas off Cape Horn to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific from the most southerly tip of New Zealand to the North Atlantic and Canada from oil drilling and exploration in Argentina to the construction of oil pipelines in the swamps and jungles of West Africa. In 1973 Scratch finally returned home to Salcombe in South Devon and went on to spend the next three decades fishing in every sea area from Dover to Rockall.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Scratch tells the story the reader will be drawn to the charismatic writing and inspired by the sheer determination of the man who overcame many obstacles not least his lifelong struggles with dyslexia. Without reference to any written document or diary the story he tells is written from the heart and carried in his soul. Readers who delight in sea exploration and travel as well as vivid well-written autobiographies will enjoy this fascinating life well lived.</span></p>