London: Adlard Coles Ltd., 1971. 198pp, bw ills, maps.. Or blue-gray cloth in jacket. Bug stained on fore-edge, endpapers toned. Jacket somewhat foxed on verso and flaps. The author tells the story of his voyage in the Moonraker with his family. From England to British Columbia via Panama, the Society Islands and Honolulu; through the Hecate Pass to Alaska; then home via Mexico and the Golfo de Tehuatepac. Along the way there are times spent learning from Alaskan Indians, encounters with whales in the mid-Atlantic and much more. Volume in the Mariners Library.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Near Very Good. 12mo.

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Bookseller: Lawrence Jones (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011252
Title: The Sea is for Sailing
Author: Pye, Peter
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Near Very Good
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 022998634X
ISBN 13: 9780229986347
Publisher: Adlard Coles Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1971
Keywords: Maritime Sailing Yachting Mariners Library Moonraker Panama Central South America Atlantic Pacific Hawaii Canada Mexico
Bookseller catalogs: Maritime/ Sailing/ Shipping;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...