Joanna Kavenna is the author of The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule and several novels.
My father was born in China and no doubt I caught from him his own boyhood tingle at the idea of ships and their Empire routes, especially long ocean voyages by P&O liner. Excitement,...
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