Book help: elephants and sailboats

Factual Questions
1

Looking for two books.

  1. English reporter buys an elephant and takes it across India

  2. Guy builds a sailboat and sails it around. 12 months in a 6 foot boat maybe?

2

The elephant book is Travels on My Elephant by Mark Shand.

3

thank you sir, that is it. I’m google’tarded, i tried so many searches and could’nt find it. but I knew the Dopers would know.

4

The sailboat one is probably Gerry Spiess, Alone Against the Atlantic. (I once worked with his wife. There were times when he was away from home for months.)