About this title: Excellently told story of Hal and Margaret Roth's 1971 18,500 miles circumnavigation of the Pacific. One of the true classics of voyaging literature. Maps, photos.
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Edition: 1st printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good hardcover in fair (worn, slightly torn, and frayed ) dust jacket. 288 pages. Bibliographical notes. Photographs. Maps. Endpaper Maps. The 19-months voyage spent circumnavigating the Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco to Tahiti and the South Seas, then to Japan, the sub-Arctic Aleutians, and the mountainous Alaskan and Canadian coasts in their 35-foot sail Whisper. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1978-08
ISBN-13:9780393032161ISBN:0393032167
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. W W Norton [Published date: 1978]. Hard cover, 288 pp. First Edition (full number line). Very good in good dust jacket. Blue boards with blue quarter cloth on spine and gold lettering on spine. Minor wear to board with light rubbing and bumping to edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages crisp, clean and bright with no markings. Dust jacket has moderate wear with a few small chips and tears along the edges and some light rubbing and bumping and creasing on inside front ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton, NY
Date Published: c. 1972
Description: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. Minor edge wear and soil on the price-cut DJ.; Bright blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Map endpapers. Scores of b/w photos. Maps by John Armstrong. TRUE ADVENTURE. The personal account of a man and woman who circumnavigated the Pacific-alone in a thirty-five-foot sailboat. In their 19 month voyage, they traveled 18, 538 miles, calling at 75 ports along the way.; 9-1/2" Tall; 288 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton, NY
Date Published: c. 1972
Description: Good+ in Good dust jacket. Minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Edges are moderately foxed. Name on ffep. Contents are almost like new. Moderate wear, very minor soil on the price-cut DJ.; Bright blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Map endpapers. Scores of b/w photos. Maps by John Armstrong. TRUE ADVENTURE. The personal account of a man and woman who circumnavigated the Pacific-alone in a thirty-five-foot sailboat. In their 19 month voyage, they traveled 18, 538 miles, calling at 75 ... read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. Hardcover. First Edition Ed. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Edition: F First Edition
Binding: H Cloth
Publisher: Macmillan, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: J Good Plus jacket. Good Plus. Ex-library with the usual flaws. Spine is slanted by 15 degrees. Runners scuffed. Reading wear to side paper edge. Light wear to jacket. Binding is firm. Text is clean. Stated first printing. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1972. Hardcover. Stated First Edition Ed. Used, good. Cover has some edge wear. Cover has some rubbing. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Co., NY
Date Published: 1972
Description: Fine. Jacket Near Fine. 9 1/2" NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has 1/4" chips with tears on edges, no price on endflap. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780393032161ISBN:0393032167
Edition: First edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co., New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780393032161ISBN:0393032167
Description: Fine in Near Fine dj. 8vo. 288 pp. Foxing on title-page. Light rubbing, wear to edges dj. The personal account of a man and woman who cicumnavigated the Pacific, alone in a thirty-five-foot sailboat. Maps by John Armstrong. read more
"Hal Roth has truly captured the essence of sailing adventure with his no nonsense style of writing. He captures the accounts of sailing a tiny, by today's standards, sailing vessel over virtually the entire pacific ocean with his extraordinary wife and sailing partner, Margaret. As you follow the pages you can actually feel the movement of the vessel and hear the shrieking in the rigging, all the while holding your breath waiting, only to collapse in shear exhaustion as you enter a lagoon or peacfull bay and drop anchor. His wonderfull accounts of the local people he meets along the way, the friedships they both make and the visual reprsentations of coastlines provide a clear picture in one's mind as if you are actually there.
I have read many seafaring books and all are unique with specific descriptions of either the technical sailing aspects, or people and cultural divserity, or geographic and Darwinistic accounts, but never really all in the one account. This is where Hal is simply expert.
This story is simply a must for any voyager or those that simply love the adventure. Do yourself a favour and get a hold of this book and drift away with the Roths."
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