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Bruce, Erroll.
Challenge to Poseidon. Adventures in Small Craft on the Open Seas.
Publisher: London, Hutchinson ['First published 1956'].
'In this book Commander Erroll Bruce gives authentic accounts of many notable oceanic voyages made in small craft-- stories of almost legendary courage and endurance.' Across the Atlantic before Columbus; Over the Uncharted Pacific; Alone Round the World; A Voyage without Skipper or Crew; South of Cape Horn; Escape from the Indian Ocean; An Angry & a Jealous God; Ocean Wanderers; Flaunting the High Seas; Rescue from a Wreck; Courtiers Supreme; Challenge to Poseidon. xi, 164 p., index, photos; 23 cm.; color pictorial dj price-clipped, part of title torn away, bottom of spine torn but present, bookplate; good. 30506.
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Item number: 30506.
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Carletti, Francesco, 1573?-1636
My Voyage Around the World
Publisher: N.Y., Pantheon,1964.
xv, 270 p. maps, 22 cm. Franceso Carletti sailed with his Florentine Merchant father from Spain in 1594. What was intended as a short venture to New Spain turned into an 8 year circumnavigation. Carletti was an acute observer. The Italian original was first published in 1701. See Hough, The Italians and the Creation of America, 57. Stock# 32,221. Vg/ dj good+. English edition. London, Methuen, 1964. Vg/ dj good+.
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Item number: 32221.
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Cloette, Stuart (Ill. the Author)
West with the Sun
Publisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962..
First Edition. 21½ X 14½ cm. VG+/VG. Red cloth, black titles & gilt sun on spine, endpaper maps, 381 pp, many b & w drawings and DJ illustration by the author. Edge wear to boards, couple of spots on bottom edge, else fine. DJ rubbed, mostly along edges, small ships at corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Novelist Stuart Cloette and his wife Tiny traveled from New Orleans to New York by freighter via Panama, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Saigon, Bangkok, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Ceylon, and Suez. Shipping weight 2 lbs.
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AUD 21.97 | CAD 20.43 | EUR 13.92 | GBP 12.18 | JPY 1,727.27 | MXN 246.75 | ZAR 146.15 |
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Twin City Antiquarian Books.
Item number: TRCN00001.
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Crowe, Bill & Phyllis Crowe.
Heaven, Hell and Salt Water. Round the World in the Schooner Lang Syne.
Publisher: Adlard Coles Ltd. 'First Edition - 1955'.
Voyages of the 39-foot Lang Syne, modeled after a Block Island schooner, which the authors built themselves in Hawai'i. '...action and movement in which the reader is taken chapter by chapter round the world... so remarkable that the authors were awarded the Blue Water Medal of the Cruising Club of America...' 264 p., index, '43 plates and 6 sketch charts', endpaper map; 22.5 cm.; color pictorial dj worn, spine ends & edges chipped; good+. 30398.
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AUD 57.80 | CAD 53.76 | EUR 36.63 | GBP 32.05 | JPY 4,545.45 | MXN 649.35 | ZAR 384.62 |
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Item number: 30398.
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Greenlaw, Linda
THE HUNGRY OCEAN : A SWORDBOAT CAPTAIN'S JOURNEY
Publisher: 1999.
Hyperion; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Circumnavigation Hardcover; 11th Printing Bumped spine foot. Otherwise no significant defects. A thirty-day swordfishing voyage tells the tale of a woman succeeding in a male-dominate d profession. ; 8vo; 265 pages
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AUD 9.88 | CAD 9.19 | EUR 6.26 | GBP 5.48 | JPY 777.27 | MXN 111.04 | ZAR 65.77 |
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Item number: 9461.
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Hiscock, Eric C.
SOU' WEST IN WANDERER IV
Publisher: 1973.
Oxford Univ. ; 1st Edition; Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket Circumnavigation Hardcover Lightly worn boards in newly mylared dust jacket . Inked name on ffep. Eric Hiscock has had rich adventures in his life under sail--circumna vigating the globe no less than three times. In addition, his other works provide the definitive references for ocean sailing. In this book, he recounts more of his travels in the Wanderer, in an exciting, informative account. ; 58 Color photographs, 8 maps; 8vo; 223 pages
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AUD 12.07 | CAD 11.23 | EUR 7.65 | GBP 6.69 | JPY 949.09 | MXN 135.58 | ZAR 80.31 |
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Item number: 2828.
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Slocum, Captain Joshua edited by Walter Magnes Teller
Sailing Alone Around the World & Voyage of the Liberdade
Publisher: New York: Collier Books, 1978 reprint..
382pp. illus. paperback: Fine. A nice reprint of a sailing classic by the Canada born Slocum (1844-1909), complete with the account of his "Liberdade" voyage from Brazil to Washington, D. C. , in a homemade "canoe" with his wife and two small children.
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Item number: 14668.
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Wagner, Henry Raup, 1862-1957.
Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World : its Aims and Achievements / by Henry R. Wagner.
Publisher: Mansfield Centre, CT : Martino Pub., c2005..
x, 543 p. illus., ports., maps (part fold.) 28 cm. Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28, 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, naval pioneer and raider, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. He was the first captain to circumnavigate the Earth (Magellan died on his voyage, which was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano). He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery while unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1596 Wagner’s work is arguably the most comprehensive assembly of texts and detailed analysis of Drake's voyage. Originally published: San Francisco, Calif., John Howell, 1926. (1471) Mint, new from publisher / no dj as issued.
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Item number: 1471.
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Wilson, Derek
THE CIRCUMNAVIGATORS
Publisher: M. Evans & Co NY 1989.
VG in VG dj, name penned on front free endpaper 1st printing Hardback Red cl spine/tan boards. B&W illustrations. Sources/references, index. History of ropund-the-world voyages
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AUD 8.79 | CAD 8.17 | EUR 5.57 | GBP 4.87 | JPY 690.91 | MXN 98.70 | ZAR 58.46 |
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Item number: BOOKS013396I.
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Wilson, Derek.
The Circumnavigators.
Publisher: New York, M. Evans, [1989].
' 345 p., index, illus., maps, photos; 24.5 cm. 'The Circumnavigators is a major chronicle of human adventure, travel and discovery. It… unfolds the story chronologically from the moment on 25 April 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan was speared to death on Mactan and Juan de Elcano took up the challenge of bringing his surviving companions home. It continues that story through four and a half centuries crammed with astonishing exploits by men and women of many nations. …The book's fast-flowing text is well illustrated with pictures, charts and diagrams which enhance its value as an informative and entertaining volume…' Stock# 39,144. Fine/ color pictorial dj; fine.
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Item number: 39144.
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