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Two Against Cape Horn – Hal Roth

Published by Stanford Maritime, London a first English edition 1979. Octavo, 288 pages well illustrated with photographs and great charts supporting the exciting narrative. Very good near fine condition.

A quite remarkable book by the adventurous Hal Roth. With his wife Margaret they he had already completed a Pacific voyage that won them the Blue water medal of the Cruising Club of America.

Having purchased the “Whisper” they decided to Round the Horn but not before a most interesting sailing experience through the vast archipelago of islands to the north of the Cape.

The book is enhanced by references to great historic voyages through these channels. Including HMS Darwin on Beagle and before that Lord Anson and his fleet and the loss of the Wager.

Unfortunately, within striking distance of the Cape the Whisper is forced aground and damaged. Surprisingly, help is nearby, they are found and the boat repaired and they finally succeed with their objective.

A special book about the Horn and much more plus historical perspective

$30.00

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Atlantic Cruise in Wanderer III – Eric Hiscock – 1968

Published by Oxford University Press 1968, Octavo, 159 pages with 80 colour photographs and 7 charts by the author and his voyaging wife.

A first edition 1968 of Eric Hiscock’s Fourth book of sailing adventures … this time in the North Atlantic after having completed two circumnavigations.

The new Wanderer (no III) a 30-foot yacht taking in Western France, Spain, Portugal across to the Windward Islands and the Bahamas. Then up north to Bar Harbour, Maine and reversing back hugging the New England Coast and all the way down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Hiscock North Atlantic two year cruise

$25.00

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Triumph and Tribulation – H.W. (Bill) Tilman

Published by the Nautical Press a first edition 1977. Octavo, 153 pages, nicely illustrated and with charts.

Tilman heading north to the icy waters of Spitzbergen. He managed to sail right around the island of Vestspitzbergen coming within 600 miles of the North Pole. Then off to Greenland and Disko Bay. An extraordinary adventure well documented.

The author H.W. (Bill) Tilman (1898-1977) war hero, mountaineer and sailor extraordinaire. Major Tilman first served in the Royal Artillery on the Western Front gaining the Military Cross. Between the wars he grew coffee in East Africa and road bicycle 3,000 miles across Africa, climbed Kilimanjaro and the Mountains of the Moon. He turned to mountain climbing and more than once teamed up with Eric Shipton. In 1936 he conquered Nanda Devi which at that time was the highest mountain climbed. In WWII he re-joined the Royal Artillery in North Africa and the Middle East. He parachuted into Albania and worked by the resistance. Afterwards he was given a diplomatic position in Burma where he returned to climbing. On return to the UK with age coming on he took to sailing as a means of reaching unclimbed mountains. At the age of 80 he crewed on an expedition to climb in the Antarctic and lost his life at sea in the South Atlantic. The expedition vessel, a converted tug, leaving Rio but never making it to the Falkland Islands.

Tilman out in the cold again! Superb sailing in dangerous waters

$30.00

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Two Yachts, Two Voyages (Across the Pacific) – Eric Hiscock – 1984

Published by Adlard Coles, London a first edition 1984. Certain parts had previously been published in specialist magazines. Octavo, 167 pages, illustrated and in fine condition.

Few wrote better modern day voyaging accounts than Hiscock.

At over 70 years old Eric Hiscock and his wife Susan crossed the Pacific from their home in New Zealand to the West Coast of Canada in the steel ketch Wanderer IV. They changed their boat for the return a smaller sloop-rigged yacht. Job 40 as it was known was transformed into Wanderer V. It was not plain sailing on the return and repairs and modifications were required along the way and she still had snags as she reached her final destination Pittwater, near Sydney.

Across the Pacific and back with a change of boats – always adventurous Hiscocks

$30.00

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Sea Wanderers to Australia – Martin

Published by Macmillan, Sydney a first edition 1977. Octavo, 192 pages with endpaper maps and nicely illustrated. A very good if not fine copy.

Norman Martin’s car hire business got into difficulty as UK Governments changed the rules. This was partly the stimulus that drove him and wife Sheila to give it all up in 1970 and spend five years at sea in their 42 foot ketch “Shebessa”.

And what an adventure. Circumnavigating west to the Caribbean through Panama to the Galapagos, on to the Marquesas, the Tuamato Group, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji then down to Australia landing at Byron. Down to Sydney and Melbourne before sailing for Lord Howe Island and on up to New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, Cheery Islands. Through the Solomon Islands to Rabaul and on to Madang before turning back to Cairns and on through the Torres Straits and the long sail to the Maldives. The voyage continues with equal intensity.

Martins in the Shebessa a full voyage every beauty spot visited.

$25.00

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Sails Full and By – Dom Degnon

Published by Sheridan House, Dobbs Ferry a first edition 1995. Octavo, 244 pages illustrated. Very good near fine condition.

A seven-year circumnavigation in the 41 foot ketch “Taku”. With so much time they need a full crew of friends and family who come and go during the “voyage”. With more time than some they have more time for the exotic .. and in the Pacific Ahe, Tahiti, Samoa, Sunwarrow, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. Then off to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and then difficulties with the boat and they just made it to Australia’s Lizard island. And then more ….

A long time around the world an unusual narrative

$25.00

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Two Against Cape Horn – Hal Roth

Atlantic Cruise in Wanderer III – Eric Hiscock – 1968

Triumph and Tribulation – H.W. (Bill) Tilman

Two Yachts, Two Voyages (Across the Pacific) – Eric Hiscock – 1984

Sea Wanderers to Australia – Martin

Sails Full and By – Dom Degnon

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