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Tai Ki – To the Point of No Return – Kuno Knoble

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Published by Little, Brown Boston a first English language edition 1976. Translated by Rita and Robert Kimber from the first German edition the year before. large octavo, 276 pages with many colour photographic illustrations, endpaper maps etc. Chips to top and bottom of dust jacket spine, otherwise a pretty good copy , very clean internally.

Could an ancient Chinese junk have sailed to America? In 1974 Kuno Knobl and seven others built and launched the Tai Ki and set sail across the Pacific.

They didn’t make it all the way as they were beset by a series of difficulties … it was “worm” that caused the most havoc .. with the crew eventually spending nearly all their time plugging holes created by the little devils. A final typhoon crippled the vessel.

Luckily they were rescued by the container-ship Washington Mail and the Tai Kai was abandoned 40 degrees north and south of Alaska.

Tai Ki … almost there but for the worms

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