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Rounding The Horn: Being The Story Of Williwaws And Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries And Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View Of Cape Horn
by Murphy, Dallas
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465047599
- ISBN 13
- 9780465047598
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Basic Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/fine. Fine First Edition, first printing (with full number line on copyright page) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean orange boards with black spine, copper metallic lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean sun yellow endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with maps. 358 pages with index + "About the Author". Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. In Autumn of 2000, aboard a 53-foot steel sloop called "Peagic", Dallas Murphy sailed down by the Horn. He weaves stories of his own nautical adventures together with tales of those who braved Cape Horn befor him, from Francis Drake to Charles Darwin, and breath-taking descriptions of the surrounding wilderness..
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- Title
- Rounding The Horn: Being The Story Of Williwaws And Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries And Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View Of Cape Horn
- Author
- Murphy, Dallas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0465047599
- ISBN 13
- 9780465047598
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, CAPE HORN, DALLAS MURPHY, FIRST EDITION, NAUTICAL TRAVEL NARRATIVE, SHIPS, SAILING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; ships/sailing/shipwrecks;
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