About this title: The perfect armchair sailing guide, with enough detail to set a person dreaming . . . On July 21, 2004, Silver Donald Cameron and his wife, Marjorie Simmins, set sail from D'Escousse, in Cape Breton Island, toward the white sand beaches and palm trees of the nearest tropical islands. They were sailing an old Norwegian-built ketch named "Magnus." Accompanying them was their dog, Leo the Wonder Whippet. Leo was thirteen. The skipper was an old-age pensioner. His youthful mate was new to the cruising life. Yet 236 days later, with more than 3,000 nautical miles behind them, this ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
Date Published: 2007-12-11
ISBN-13:9780771018428ISBN:0771018428
Description: Good. Clean text pages/light soiling on long page edges, no spine creases, no writing, some page corner creases, minor shelf-wear to cover, edge-wear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
Date Published: 2007-12-11
ISBN-13:9780771018428ISBN:0771018428
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780771018428. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780771018411ISBN:077101841X
Description: As New in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. 367 pp. Includes b&w photographic plates plus appendix. This book traces the author's 3000 mile voyage along the western fringe of the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780771018428ISBN:0771018428
Description: New. The perfect armchair sailing guide, with enough detail to set a person dreaming...On July 21, 2004, Silver Donald Cameron and his wife, Marjorie Simmins, set sail from D'Escousse, in Cape Breton Island, toward the white sand beaches and palm tree... read more
Description: New. Chronicles a 3, 000 mile trek from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas. It was quite the trip: the old-age pensioner, his youthful but inexperienced mate and their 13-year-old whippet survive screeching storms and putting a hole in the bow. read more
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