Adrian Hayter
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Adrian Goodenough Hayter (born 22 December 1914[1], died 14 June 1990[2]) was a writer and adventurer. He served in the British Indian Army in a Gurkha regiment from the early 1930s earning a Military Cross in 1942 by taking a Japanese stronghold[2]. He completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe in 1956 and again 1963 travelling this time east to west becoming the first to sail around the world both ways[3].In 1964-5, he led the first "wintering-over" party at Scott Base in Antarctica and was later awarded the Polar Medal.[2]
[edit] Works
- Sheila En Viento, El, Juventud, July 1991 Paperback[4]
- A man called Peters, Hodder and Stoughton, 1977
- The year of the quiet sun, Hodder & Stoughton, 1968
- Business in great waters, Hodder and Stoughton, 1965
- The second step, Hodder & Stoughton, 1962
- Sheila in the wind, Hodder and Stoughton, 1959 also published by Companiom Book Club, 1959
- The long voyage, Harper, 1959
