ICE!
de Tristan Jones
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good plus/Very Good plus
- ISBN 10
- 0836263022
- ISBN 13
- 9780836263022
- Librería
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Kansas City [Kan.]: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good plus/Very Good plus. Pages are clean with no markings from previous owners. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean with minor edgewear. Text block is clean. Dust jacket has some slight edgewear, creases and rubbing at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket covers are lightly scuffed and rubbed. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.
Sinopsis
Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm and without an adequate supply of food, he spends a full week digging himself out of enormous snow drifts until he is able to be seen and rescued. This incident kicks off a series of impossible adventures as he voyages to the treacherous waters of the North Pole. His second winter at sea finds him trapped in an enormous ice pack in the Arctic Ocean. For 366 days he is marooned on the craft. As he faces his loneliness and the possibility of his own death under the dazzling Northern lights, Tristan Jones's incomparable sailing adventure reaches an unimaginable climax. Ice! is a classic tale of adventure, its author acclaimed by Time magazine as "someone Lindbergh would have understood".
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Detalles
- Librería
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 27450
- Título
- ICE!
- Autor
- Tristan Jones
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good plus
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good plus
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0836263022
- ISBN 13
- 9780836263022
- Editorial
- Sheed Andrews and McMeel
- Lugar de publicación
- Kansas City [Kan.]
- Fecha de publicación
- 1978
- Palabras clave
- Other, Jones, Tristan, 1924-, Cresswell (Ketch), Voyages and travels, North Atlantic Ocean
Términos de venta
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Atlanta Vintage Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
Sobre Atlanta Vintage Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
