The Sailor’s Classics presents the best writing about the sea as observed from the perspective of a small boat under sail. It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure.
academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an international best-seller when it appeared in 1967. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. In this incredible voyage, in which he was beset by trouble and danger, nearly demasted, self-steering gear destroyed, and capsized, Sir Francis never lost hope or humour, and his firm determination to continue his voyage off the West Australian coast, when any lesser man would have made for Fremantle, is just an example of truly dauntless courage in the face of fantastic odds. First published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an instant international best-seller.
Sir Francis, at 65, captured everyone's imagination as he set out in his 53 foot ketch from Plymouth in September 1966 for Sydney, and thence eastwords via Cape Horn back to Plymouth. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. The authors illustrated account of his epic single-handed round-the-world sailing voyage of 1966-67 in the famous Gypsy Moth, now moored at Greenwich.
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