First edition, first impression. 232pp, with black and white plate illustrations and some further line drawings in text. Tan cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth worn, a little rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of a ridged spine. Upper text block edge spotting, occasionally affecting page faces, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
An account of a 1950s voyage from New Zealand to England in a forty-six foot sailing cutter.
