Gypsy moth circles the world6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). ![]() (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn Sir Francis Chichester 32 Hardcover 83 offers from 2.34 Maiden Voyage Tania Aebi 372 Paperback 58 offers from 9. 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. 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. ![]()
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