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Published 1951: First Mariners Library Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original beige embossed cloth with blue titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 219 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers, edges and occasional page within. Covers are slightly rubbed and stained with time consistent with age. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. Scarce! (RB208)

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A first-hand account of an intrepid voyage of 12,000 miles from England to Tahiti, across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in a small 38-ft yacht with a freeboard of only 20 inches at the stern

ON July 7, 1931, the 38-ft auxiliary cutter yacht Pacific Moon sailed from Falmouth, starting-point of so many maritime adventures; a year and five days later she arrived at Papeete, Tahiti. During that time she covered 12,000 miles without serious mishap and called at Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, the West Indies and the Marquesas. The adventure began one winter’s night, when the rain beat at the windows of my flat in London where I was living alone. I stoked up the fire and began reading a yachting journal. An advertisement caught my eye. The advertiser stated that he wanted a partner to buy a half-share in a yacht fitted out for ocean cruising and to make a voyage in the direction of Panama.

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