WHEN I PUT OUT TO SEA by Walker, Nicolette Milnes - 1973

London: Pan Books, 1973. 142 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a faint partial crease on the spine; small ink mark on the front endpaper. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates. Nicolette Milnes Walker was the first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic from Britain to America. It took her forty-five days in a thirty-foot sloop. The Contents are: Why; Preparations; Leaving; First Gale; Snags; Sailing through the Spout; A Thousand Miles Away; Temptation One; Talking to Myself; Scare; A Visitor; Bad Weather Coming; Trouble; Temptation Two; Nearly There; Discovering America; Taking the Crown; Appendix One: List of Stores; Appendix Two: The Boat; and Appendix Three: Facts and Figures.. First Paperback Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Book.