Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage
by Buckley, William F. Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394557816
- ISBN 13
- 9780394557816
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1987. Photographs by Christopher Little. Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in William Buckley Jr's sailing trilogy. Buckley takes his son, his friends and his readers to another ocean, on a four-thousand-mile run across the Pacific. A journey with Buckley is inevitably an expedition into oddly assorted experiences and comedy, into observation and illumination- into wit and reflection and into friendships that overcome friction. He guides us through his beloved Azores, and through the Galapagos, and through places such as Johnston Atoll, where mysteries and hostilities await. The fine photographs in color and b/w by Christopher Little illustrate throughout. When Buckley's "Sealestial" sails finally into New Guinea, we have shared a unique experience with a special breed of sailor, skipper, host, friend and human being. Prologue, epilogue and index supplied. Scrimshaw oil painting by George Thompson is used to illustrate endpapers. Name to ffep. Small edge stain involve several page edges of prelims. This does not affect any print. Bright cloth boards. Rear board cloth shows short edge scrape. Price-intact photo dust jacket. Back panel of dust jacket shows damage to outside edge. This book remains sound, bright and still most respectable.. ISBN: 0-394-55781-6. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Pacific Ocean + Sealestial (yacht) + Christopher Little + Photographer + The Azores + Galapagos + Tahiti + Johnston Atoll + Part Three Sailing Trilogy + Travel + Sailing +. Catalogs: Nautica.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1161
- Title
- Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage
- Author
- Buckley, William F. Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394557816
- ISBN 13
- 9780394557816
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautica;
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