eric tabarly len ortzen (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Chipped.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st American edition. 221pp. 8vo in blue cloth. B&W photos. Faint soiling to boards; light chipping to edgeworn, price-clipped jacket; ink name else interio unmarked.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Clarkson N. Potter [Published Date: 1966]. Hardcover, 221 pp. First American Edition. Very Good in good dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has a few 1" or chips and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] The vast and lonely Atlantic Ocean with its gales and huge waves is not the place for tiny sailing yachts. Yet it looks as though the fantastic single-handed race may become a four-yearly event. The first race in 1960 was won by the indomitable Francis Chichester in forty and a half days. In 1964 no less than fifteen small sailing craft, including two catamarans and a trimaran, set sail from Plymouth Sound. This tremendously exciting race, in which the leading yachts' positions could only be guessed, was won by Eric Tabarly a Sub-Lieutenant in the French Navy. In the Pen-Duick II Tabarly crossed the finishing line after twenty-seven days, ahead of Chichester and beating the previous victory time by thirteen days. The young Frenchman from the Brittany coast won a brilliant victory. Every minute, every inch of sail counted, for the contestants included some of the finest of today's yachtsman and no less than seven beat Chichester's 1960 time. The preparations for the race, the design and building of the Pen-Duick II, the encounters with the other competitors - tough, colourful men themselves - and the excitement of the race will be more than satisfying for every reader. The expert sailor will be fascinated also by the special equipment which enabled Tabarly to deal with the expected and unexpected incidents of weather and fatigue. There is a copious supply of drawings and a fine selection of illustrations. A great race has produced a great book - a classic of the sea.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First British Edition. Copy in navy cloth on boards with gilt title on spine. Spine is sunned with some carry over to lower cover. Corners lightly bumped. A few small flecks on upper cover. Upper corner of FFE has been removed. Free of inscriptions. A few light internal cracks. Spine rubbed at head/foot. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Solid binding. Little wear on covers. Light foxing on page edges and inside covers. Jacket has small tears and wrinkles. A classic memoir of an adventure at sea.

Condizione: Poor. Shelfwear to jacket with tear to upper front and smaller tears to edges and spine. Some light marking to cover and slight foxing/tanning to pages otherwise content in very good reading condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Dust wrapper with rubbed and chipped edges & corners. Boards with small mark on top edge of spine. Top Edge with discolouration, Internally Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any issues, clean and tidy copy in tight binding. Price clipped dust wrapper has now been fitted with removable archive acetate film. ** 518g ** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed.

First edition in English of French Navy officer and yachtsman Eric Tabarlyâs account of his victorious 1964 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race on his gaff-rigged cutter Pen Duick. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, charts, and maps. From the library of James Stephen âSteveâ Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailingâs most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviationâs highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fà dà ration Aà ronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In 1964, French Navy officer and yachtsman Ãric Tabarly won the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Yacht Race on his his gaff-rigged cutter Pen Duick, crossing the finish line after twenty-seven days and beating the previous victory time by thirteen days. Here is the expert sailor's account of the tremendously exciting race - a true classic of seamanship,