The Reluctant Adventurer

Descripción

240pp, b/w photos. LACKS front flyleaf. Endpages and pages lightly foxed. Occasional foxing throughout. Cloth boards, heavily spotted at the spine, with flecking at the edges, in rubbed and worn jacket which has lost sections at the spine head and from the upper edge of the front panel. Having run away from school in England, the author emigrated to Australia just before the outbreak of World War II. He joined the Intelligence Corps in the Middle East. After his return to civilian life he returns to England where he starts and establishes a club for Australians before setting out to sail a yacht from London to Tahiti. After 30 days adrift in the Pacific, he returns to London and organises an underwater archaeological expedition to find the city of Epidauros, about which he wrote in his book 1600 Years under the Sea. His adventures continue in Bulgaria, Angola and the Congo before moving to his yacht in the Mediterranean. Size: 8vo.

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Detalles bibliográficos

Título

The Reluctant Adventurer

Editor

Frederick Muller, London

Fecha de publicación

1962

Encuadernación

Hard Cover

Edición

First Edition.

Estado

Fair to Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fair

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• Biography