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BESTIC, A.A. Kicking Canvas. 1st UK in dj
Evans Brothers, 1957,
BESTIC, Captain A.A. Kicking Canvas. L.: Evans Brothers, (1957). First Printing. Pp 207. Illustrated. 8vo, black cloth. "This book describes my first voyage as an apprentice in the sailing ship Denbigh Castle, a voyage perhaps unique in the annals of sail." - from the Foreword. Vg-fine in dj. 35.00
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35.00 CDN
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BESTIC, A.A. Kicking Canvas. 1st US in dj. ex-library
Dutton, New York, 1958,
BESTIC, A.A., Captain. Kicking Canvas. N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958.First US Printing. Pp (12),13-255,(1) + 8 pp. of photographs. 8vo, blue cl oth. "This book describes my first voyage as an apprentice in the sailing ship Denbigh Castle, a voyage perhaps unique in the annals of sail." - from the Foreword. "'Land ahead!' After a moment of stunned silence, a cheer went up from some of the Denbigh Castle's crew, while others said a silent prayer of thanksgiving. For the deep-water windjammer, pulling into Freemantle, Australia that day in June, 1909, had set a gruelling record of 253 days at sea - one of the longest unbroken passages in sailing history - with herfinal destination, the Peruvian port of Molendo, still thousands of hazard ous miles away. "Now, almost fifty years after that stirring day, Captain Bestic has returned to the exciting time when he first shipped as a boy apprentice aboard the Denbigh Castle. And it is with a boy's enthusiasm that hetells the amazing true story of a voyage which terrific storms, near shipw reck and a mutiny stretched onto two years, took him to three continents, and made him a sailor." - from the dj. Ex-library (library stamps, rear pouch removed, etc.), else vg in edgeworn dj. 15.00
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15.00 CDN
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