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DANGEROUS WATERS - One Man's Search for Adventure
by Philpott, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0771069987
- ISBN 13
- 9780771069987
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario
Item Price:
$14.95
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985. 179 pp. Quarter-bound with blue on cream boards; lettered in cream on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This is the true story of the CEO of a major multi-national corporation who said to hell with life at the top and rebelled against his perfect success. His first step into adventure was to buy a bicycle. After cycling every day before breakfast, he rode to Florida, then across Canada. But the bicycle wasn't quite enough. A solo sail around the world might do it... so he sailed from the East Coast and out across the Atlantic.... First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. Author's First Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 220074
- Title
- DANGEROUS WATERS - One Man's Search for Adventure
- Author
- Philpott, David
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771069987
- ISBN 13
- 9780771069987
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date published
- 1985
- Keywords
- seafaring; nautical adventure; bicycle; long distance cycling; solo sail around the world; circumnavigation; shipwreck; armchair geographer; geography; canadian author; canadiana;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Burlington, Ontario
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About W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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- First Edition
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- rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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