In 1931, Dennis Puleston quit his banking job in London and set to sea in a 31 foot sailboat. Blue Water Vagabond is his gripping account of the next six years, spent sailing around the world. He was wrecked off Cape Hatteras, hunted for treasure on the silver shoals, was tattooed with sharks teeth in Samoa, contracted malaria, and was taken captive by cannibals in the New Hebrides. Arriving finally in China, he found himself grounded in Peking by the Sino-Japanese war.