GREENLAND Sailing ARCTIC H W Bill Tilman ROVING COMMISSIONS Yacht Cruising FIRST

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VERY GOOD CONDITION This sale is for a vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “ Roving Commissions, Number 5 ,” an anthology of cruising logs, edited by Alasdair Garrett , with 44 illustrations, including a frontispiece. It was published by R.C.C. Press Limited of London , (Royal Cruising Club) and is the 1965 FIRST EDITION. The contents include: · On the Passage of Time · Tzu Hang - Singapore to Kagoshima ( Japan – across Sarawak, Borneo and the Philippines to Japan ) · Homeward From the Mediterranean by a Roundabout Route · Mostly to windward · Caromy’s Cruise to North Spain · Now we Know · There and Back-Single-Handed · Atlantic Passage (by Francis Chichester) · Nanise-A Cruise to Portugal · On the Celtic Fringe · Kochab Returns to New Zealand · Herald’s First Cruise · Mary Deare in the Aegean (by Hammond Innes) · To East Greenland in Mischief (by H. W. “Bill” Tilman) · Gimcrack-The Beaulieu River to Oslofjord · Fairlight to the Skagerrak · Pepper in Denmark · Leaving Ireland to Starboard · Irish Sea Encompassed · Sailing in East African Waters The book measures 8.75 inches x 6 inches and has 338 pages. The book is in very good condition for its age, neat and clean, with wear to the original dust-jacket (not price-clipped). There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the read more