Introduction
Our voyage has as its point of departure a childhood spent in Africa. This voyage takes one to an Africa just over the horizon, to the bits you haven’t seen yet. The story really begins with the painting, “Captain Maltraver’s Voyage to the Interior”, hung in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in 1980 – the TV critic’s pick of the show. The “magic carpet” for that painting and several since, was the 10 man “North Sea” airship, developed by the Admirality during the First World War for anti-submarine patrols lasting days over that sea.
Gary M James and Alex James