ALONG THE CLIPPER WAY
by Francis Chichester:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton London 1957 Vg/G (dj chipped and torn at edges, clean blue cloth with bright gilt titles on grey panel on spine, pages clean and bright throughout) octavo 256pp. Fifth impression. Accounts by seamen and famous authors of journeys along the great clipper way. Includes pieces from the three solo yachtsmen who have so far survived doubling the Horn, and the man who twice tried to round the Horn but was capsized and dismasted each time.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55108
- Title
- ALONG THE CLIPPER WAY
- Author
- Francis Chichester:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton London 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
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