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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
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription signed on title page. DJ has slight edgewear and soiling. Poss
- ISBN 10
- 0465047599
- ISBN 13
- 9780465047598
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Basic Books, 2004. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription signed on title page. DJ has slight edgewear and soiling. Possibly inscribed to Andrew Wilson (born August 22, 1964), an American film actor and director. He is the older brother of.... xv, [3], 358, [2] p. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Dallas Murphy is an acclaimed author, playwright and marine journalist. He grew up in South Florida and currently resides in New York City. From an on-line posting: "Dallas Murphy grew up in South Florida, where, diving, fishing, and sailing, he fell in love with the ocean and particularly the Gulf Stream. He is the author of two professionally produced plays, The Terrorists and The Explorers, and eight books, a mix of fiction and nonfiction. His three-book series, Lover Man, (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Lush Life, and Don t Explain were about a reluctant sleuth who lives off his dog, star of screen, TV, and dog food boxes. Apparent Wind was about a real estate swindle and ecological destruction in the Florida Keys. Most recently, he published Rounding the Horn, a nonfiction account of Cape Horn, including exploration, human and natural history structured around his own sailing trip down by the Horn. In 2007, he published To Follow the Water, about the history of physical oceanography and its evolution to the present. He has participated in five oceanographic cruises aboard Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ships Oceanus and Knorr and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Ronald H. Brown. In April 2010, he accompanied University of Miami scientists on a cruise aboard Knorr to the Agulhas Current, the Indian Ocean s western boundary current. In 2010, he returned to the waters north of Iceland with WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart."
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
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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 - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription signed on title page. DJ has slight edgewear and soiling. Poss
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0465047599
- ISBN 13
- 9780465047598
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Alacluf, Beagle Channel, Fuegia Basket, Thomas Bridges, Jemmy Burton, George Despard, Robert FitzRoy, Isla Hermite, Keppel Island, Tierra del Fuego, William Smyley, James Weddell
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