"Nautical Classics" Signed Limited Edition, 6 Vol. Complete Set w/COA by Wiliam F. Buckley, Jr - 2002

As New. The Perfect Leather Bound Collector's Set for Anyone Who Enjoys Sailing A six volume matching and complete set. Premium leather accented with 22kt gold. Gilded page edges. Set includes the following volumes: "Airborne" (personally signed by William F. Buckley, Jr.) "Gypsy Moth Circles the World" Sir Francis Chichester. "My Old Man and the Sea" David Hays and Daniel Hays "Godforsaken Sea" Derek Lundy "Sailing Alone Around the World" Joshua Slocum "The Cruise of the Snark" Jack London Condition As New. William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to politics was the fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan. Buckley wrote first God and Man at Yale (1951); among over fifty further books on writing, speaking, history, politics and sailing, were a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He was a practicing Roman Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut. About "Sailing Alone Around the World" Sailing Alone Around the World (1899) is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers. Captain Slocum, a highly experienced navigator and ship-owner, rebuilt and refitted the derelict sloop Spray in a seaside pasture at Fairhaven, Massachusetts during a thirteen-month period between early 1893 and 1894. Between April 24, 1895 and June 27, 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the Atlantic twice (to Gibraltar and back to South America), negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time) to reach home after a journey of 46,000 miles. About "Gypsy Moth Circles the World" Sir Francis Chichester. Gypsy Moth IV is a 54 ft ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to sail single-handed around the globe, racing against the times set by the clipper ships of the 19th century. After being nursed back to health from a suspected lung abscess by his wife, Chichester became inspired while writing his book Along the Clipper Way, which charts the voyage taken by 19th century wool clippers returning from Australia. The clippers took an average of 123 days to make their passage, so Chichester set himself the target of making the passage in 100 days. In 1962 Chichester commissioned Gosport-based ship yard Camper and Nicholsons to build the fourth boat in his series, all named Gypsy Moth. The name originated from the de Havilland Gypsy Moth aircraft in which Chichester completed pioneering work in aerial navigation techniques. Will incur additional insured shipping charges.