Introduction
Our voyage has as its point of departure a childhoodspent in Africa. This voyage takes one to an Africajust over the horizon, to the bits you haven’t seen yet.
The story really begins with the painting, “CaptainMaltraver’s Voyage to the Interior”, hung in the RoyalAcademy’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 theAdmirality during the First World War for anti-submarinepatrols lasting days over that sea.
