Ship Ahoy!

James Holman Vault

1786 - 1858

EPISODE I - THE CELEBRATED BLIND TRAVELLER

Struck blind by scurvy and invalided from the navy in 1810, Holman set off on his travels.
In the autumn of 1829, he wrote a single entry in his diary -

'Today I have encircled the world...' 
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