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Aebi, Tania, with Bernadette Brennan.
Maiden Voyage.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. 1st printing. 302 pages. Color photographs.
Map. Sail configuration and deck plan.
The first American woman, and the youngest person ever, to circumnavigate the
globe alone from 1985 to 1989 in the 26-foot sloop Varuna. Very good hardcover
in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0671666533. #27863. $12.50
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Allcard, Edward C.
Voyage Alone: An Adventurous Cruise in a Thirty-Six-Foot Ketch,
Sailed Single-Handed from The English Channel to The Caribbean Sea and The
River Plate.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1964. 310 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Photographs. Plans.
Endpaper maps.
Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #10050. $20
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Amateur Yacht Research Society
(AYRS).
Ocean Trimarans.
United Kingdom: Amateur Yacht Research Society, 1961. 61 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. Plans. AYRS Publication No. 34.
Includes Arthur Piver's 'Trans-Atlantic Trimaran' in Nimble, and Piver 'The
Automatic-Release Cleat.' Also description of Tilloo, a trimaran motorsailer.
James Brown, 'Juana's Pacific Cruise. Gem, a cruising trimaran. Jack Fulton,
'Kolu Naia' and 'Stability Curves'. Very good pictorial wrappers (soft cover).
#24470. $50
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Anderson, J. R. L.
Vinland Voyage.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967. 1st edition. 278 pages. Photographs. Endpaper
map.
Very good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #10083. $12.50
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Andrews, William A., Captain.
Columbus Outdone: An Exact Narrative of the Voyage of the
Yankee Skipper in the Boat 'Sapolio.' Compiled from the Log and Original
Documents By Artemas Ward, Advertising Manager for Enoch Morgan's Sons Co.
New York: No Publisher, James Kempster Printing Co., 1893. 198 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Folding maps. Folding illustrations. Frontispiece
portrait. World's Fair Souvenir Edition.
Describes a solo voyage from Atlantic City to Palos, Spain, July 21 to
September 20, 1893, in Sapolio - 14 feet 6 inches in length, 5 feet 5 inches
amidship, with a 3 foot draft, which Andrews built himself. Good pictorial
hardcover. Front cover worn and scratched with a bare spot on the upper
right-hand front cover where the word 'Outside' of the title is partially worn
off; edges slightly rubbed. #10103. $375
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Andrews, William A., Captain.
A Daring Voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. By Two Americans,
the Brothers Andrews.
Introduction and Notes by Dr. Macaulay. London: Griffith and Farran, 1880. 151
pages, plus 32 pages Publishers Catalog dated 11/80 bound in. Illustrations.
Laid in: Elmer Chickering Souvenir photograph card, International Maritime
Exhibition, 1889-90. The Souvenir card shows a portrait of Andrews, and two
pictures of their boat 'Nautilus'.
Account of the voyage of the 'Nautilus' from Boston to Le Havre via Falmouth
during the summer of 1878. Very good green pictorial hardcover, corners and
edges slightly worn and rubbed. The front cover and spine are gilt-tooled. Some
foxing. #10104. $225
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Andrews, William, Capt.
Dangerous Voyages of Captain William Andrews.
Compiled and commentary by Richard Henderson. New York: Abercrombie & Fitch;
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966. vii, 394 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. Maps. Includes facsimile reprints of 'A Daring Voyage' and
'Columbus Outdone.'
Very good pictorial hardcover. #27466. $22.50
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Anthony, Irvin.
Voyagers Unafraid.
New York: Burt, 1930? Crescent Library. 272 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #10108. $12.50
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Arrow, Neil.
10,000 Miles to Boston.
New York: Stein and Day, 1961. 192 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Also
published with the title Painted Ocean.
Winning skipper of the Trans-Tasman Race sails a ketch from New Zealand to
Boston with 3 men, 1 woman, and 2 children on board. Very good hardcover in
Very good dust jacket. #10123. $10
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