This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the fishing industry from the Solway Firth to Hartland Point has changed and developed over the last century
Bill Conan, a middle-aged adventurer, has entered a 30,000 mile solo race around the world in sloop Josephine, seeing it as his last chance to win status and success. Risking the test of skill, strength and endurance, Conan will follow his course across the vast expanse of the treacherous Atlantic, toward the one disaster a seaman most dreads.