Desperate Voyage

(Cover Art for the non-fiction novel by John Caldwell, published in 1949)

gouache, 19 1/2” x 14"

$11,500

It's the end of WWII (May, 1946), the author is stranded in the United States, and he wants to return to his wife in Australia. So he buys a 27 foot cutter and sets sail across the Pacific. He survives 8,500 miles of variable seas, reefs, tropic islands, crossing the equator, languishing in the doldrums, and thrashing through hurricane seas - all single-handed.