MY LIVELY LADY

Nautical Publishing Company, Lymington, Hampshire, 1968, 1^st Ed/2^nd Impression.  ISBN 0-245-59565-1.  Hard cover, 193 pages including Appendices.  Very good; blue boards with gilt decoration on front board, gilt lettering on spine.  Light edge corner and spine end wear, binding sound, orange top stain.  Dust jacket with price intact has light edge and cover wear; some age toning. Illustrated end papers; book interior clean and unmarked; colour and black & white photo plates, black & white maps, illustrations.  ‘He tells it in his own words and writes of his early days, first as a rather delicate youngster, and then of his ventures in market gardening and of how he took to the sea.  He describes how he came to race single-handed across the Atlantic and how he gradually built up the plans towards his life’s ambition of a voyage alone round Cape Horn.’ (from front flap)