Atlantic Adventurers Voyages in Small Craft

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.. Hardcover. GOOD. Jacket chipped along edges and spine, but cover illustrations largely intact (see photos) Book itself has a solid binding. Some softening to boards at corners. Interiors pages clean and free of markings. Nonfiction. 232 indexed pages. 1" X 6" 8.75" 2.5cm X 15cm X 22cm Includes a bibliography, glossary, and an appendix of Transatlantic crossing by small craft listing the name, skipper, dimensions, route, and transit times. The author crossed the Atlantic in the 25- foot Vertue XXXV in 1950. This work gathers together information on nearly 100 similar voyages made in vessels 30 feet and under ranging from rafts to open boats or modern yachts. Includes 33 plates of photographs and route maps. Includes many unique and unusual crossings including the crossing by Howard Blackburn who has lost all his fingers in an earlier disaster, two men who rowed across, an amphibious Jeep crossing, and the race between two 30 ft yachts between Bermuda and Britain. Migrated Books Template