Beyond the Reefs

1st ed, 1st imp. 222pp. Blue cloth-covered boards (lightly faded at extreme edges). Patchy tanning to endpapers, else internally neat, clean and tight. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. In its original pictorial dust jacket (gentle edgewear, rubbed at spine tips, now protected in a non-adhesive, archival quality mylar wrap. Travis, a former pilot, abandoned his career to go diving for saleable shell amongst the lovely, tiny and remote islands of the Seychelles; his story is replete with unforgettable characters and adventures ranging from the 'coffin canoe' in which a shipwrecked American saved himself from a Robinson Crusoe life and frequent encounters with sharks and sea birds, to the beauties of underwater coral. 8vo