The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday

THE WAGGONER and other poems by Edmund Blunden
JOHN CLARE Poems chiefly from MSS. selected and edited with a biographical note by Edmund Blunden and Alan Porter
THE SHEPHERD and other poems of Peace and War by Edmund Blunden awarded the Hawthornden Prize, 1922 Third Edition
THE BONADVENTURE
A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday
By EDMUND BLUNDEN
LONDON RICHARD COBDEN-SANDERSON 17 THAVIES INN
Copyright 1922
Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London
To H.W.M. THIS “ROUND TRIP”
AUTHOR’S NOTE
A few facts are perhaps needed in this place. The autumn of 1921 found me in bad health, which seemed to me to be gaining ground. The Editors for whom it is my privilege to work were of that mind too, and suggested a sea voyage. I am one of that large class who can afford little more than voyages in ships which are hauled over on chains; but this was allowed for in every possible way by my Editors, in consequence of whose active generosity and that of the owners to whom my case was made known, I suddenly found myself bound for the River Plate. I can but say that when my friends expressed their envy I was well able to understand their feelings and my good luck.