An Adventurer’s Last Voyage by Richard Cook

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An Adventurer’s Last Voyage follows the adventures of Anthony David Corbyn, a man who spent his sailing life time looking for something that did not exist. In the process he sank three yachts in different locations across the world.

During one of their many Red Sea dives, author and photo­grapher Richard Cook and his wife Joyce were the first people to discover the wreck of a yacht called the Endymion. In doing so they found a driving permit for the Townsville Motor Boat Club lying on the seabed covered in a fine layer of coral sand. Joyce and Richard spent a year tracing its owner, eventually travelling to Australia to meet Anthony and sail with him on his latest yacht, the S.V. Shiseido.

The pages of this book have been taken from Anthony’s letters and correspondence with the Cooks, telling the fascinating story of his adventuring life, with accompanying underwater photography by Richard.

Anthony David Corbyn died in November of 2011 of cancer soon after being deported back to the UK from Borneo following the sinking of the Shiseido.

Aberdeen born and bred, Richard Cook has held a life-long passion for wildlife and photography. For many years he combined the two with his other love, the sea and what lives under its surface. At a very early age he trained to SCUBA dive, from then on there was no holding him back. He dived all round the world’s seas, always with a camera photographing the life beneath the waves. This led to having numerous articles published in the diving press as well as working for a television company as a videographer on underwater videos. Since retiring from diving he has continued with the same passion on dry land, particularly on the banks of his local river the Dee. Over a few years he has walked from its source high up in the Cairngorms on the Braeriach plateau to where the river spills into the cold North Sea at Aberdeen harbour. All the while photographing plants, insects, mammals and fish. Richard is at his happiest when out in camouflage clothing photographing nature as it happens.

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