FREEDOM OF SEAS
CERBAULT'S ROMANCE
SICK OP CIVILISATION
Australian Press Association. (Received -ith October, 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, 3rd October. Alain Gerbault, the French lone circumnavigator of the world, has decided to quit European civilisation, for ever since his return he has been lionised all over France, all of which, is foreign to his nature. He has an instinctive longing for freedom, preferably of the great spaces such as thesea affords. A new, boat, smaller thai the Fire Crest, is at present being built and shortly he will set sail for Xii South Seas, from which he declares h*; will not return. He intends to live «ia small Pacific island which was pi«sented to Mm on his last voyage. Thia will be peopled by natives of his choice. • '
The iFire Crest's roaming days are ' ended. Gerbault is having her cemented into a cliff' fronting the Atlantic, where she will gradually be destroyed by the action of sun and sea and wind.Summing up his intentions, Gerbault said: "I am not a hermit through sickness or love. I am in love only with, the sea."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 10
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182FREEDOM OF SEAS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 10
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