Michael Hugh Soady was born in West Looe, Cornwall, on September 19, 1937, the eldest son of a 6th-generation Cornish fisherman. Michael was educated at Looe School, Liskeard Grammar School and Devonport Engineering College. He was conscripted into the British army from February 1960 to January 1962, serving as a non-commissioned officer in the Corps of Royal Military Police. After demobilisation, Michael held the post of a leading draughtsman for the admiralty armament supply officer. Endeavour to Be a Cornish Fisherman follows on from his memoirs in his first book, An Unlikely Cornish Fisherman, and covers Michael’s life experiences during the period 1963–1972.
In his first book, An Unlikely Cornish Fisherman: The Early Years, Michael related his memories of having his first rowing and sailing boat ‘Hilda’, on his 10th birthday and of the period of his youthful years up to the summer of 1963.Endeavour to be a Cornish Fisherman is a sequel in which Mic...