The Walkabouts. A Family At Sea
by Saunders Mike
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0812818202
- ISBN 13
- 9780812818208
- Seller
-
Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Stein and Day, 1975. This is the story of the Saunders family and their 18 month voyage on their 33-foot ketch Walkabout from Rhodesia to England. It is an engrossing first-person tale of fearful storms that tested Walkabout and her family crew to their limits.It is a tale, too, of how six quite different people learned to live in harmony within a tiny space, with everyone except the youngest taking a hand in the chores and navagation. Illustrated with maps, numerous b/w photos and drawings. A clean bright book in a photo wrap-around price-clipped dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1962
- Title
- The Walkabouts. A Family At Sea
- Author
- Saunders Mike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812818202
- ISBN 13
- 9780812818208
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Nautica + Sailing + Travel + Voyages + Cape Town + South Atlantic + West Indies + Azores + Rio De Janeiro + Rhodesia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautica;
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About the Seller
Gilt Edge Books
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia
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