Description

Ives Washburn [Published Date: 1966]. Hardcover, 215 pp. No other printings listed. Good in good dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Circular "35" stamped on top edge of text block. Light aging to decorated end-papers. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing to edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. Includes 16 pages of black and white photographs. [From front jacket flap] Throughout most of his life author Wibberley has lived by the sea - in Ireland, England, the West Indies, and California. He has learned to know the greatness of the sea, to feel its Presence, to accept its challenge, and to develop a respect for its power and majesty sure to strike a responsive chord in deep-water sailors everywhere.This, then, is the record of one man's adventures under sail, first in small sailing craft between Caribbean islands, later along the California coast, finally in the forty-foot yawl Bahia to Honolulu and return with a crew of young men and boys. Along the way there are fascinating experiences: the raising of a sunken yacht by means of inflated inner tubes, the sudden storms at sea, the makeshift repairs, the meeting with the huge tanker in mid - Pacific, the difficult decision to go on or to turn back. Some day this amazing man, Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley, author of countless books which have charmed young and old, will find his distant island, and the reader of this book will understand his dream.