AKA
by Jones, Tristan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0025598708
- ISBN 13
- 9780025598706
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse, where a sudden change in wind throws him off balance and sends him overboard. Alone in the still, open sea, he struggles to keep from drowning, knowing it is a fight that he will eventually lose.But Conan has stumbled into the migratory path of a bottle-nosed dolphin named Aka and his tribe. In an exhilarating encounter, he senses Conan's plight, communicates with him, and works to keep him afloat and alive.A stirring adventure tale, Aka depicts the ancient history of dolphins, their extraordinary traits and abilities, and their eternal friendship with humans.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12839
- Title
- AKA
- Author
- Jones, Tristan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0025598708
- ISBN 13
- 9780025598706
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0025598708, Fiction, Dolphins, First Editions
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Peninsula Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...