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WILLIS, William. Gods were Kind : An Epic 6700 Mile Voyage Alone across the Pacific. in fair dj.
Dutton, 1955, ISBN:55-8341
WILLIS, William. The Gods were Kind : An Epic 6700 Mile Voyage Alone Acrossthe Pacific. With charts, sketches and photographs. NY.: E. P. Dutton, 195 5. Pp 252, including frontis.,maps and diagrams to text + [16] pp of plates. 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 0691. "On October 15th, 1954, William Willis achieved the impossible. Alone on a sinking raft, battered by nearly four months of storms and wind, exhausted from lack of sleep, he landed at Pago Pago in American Samoa, 6700 miles from his starting point in Callao, Peru." -from the dust jacket. Edgeworn, fraying to corners, pen notations to ffep, ow vgin fair (inner flaps detached, and edges chipped) price clipped dj. 25.00
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WILLIS, William Hundred Lives of an Ancient Mariner. 1st UK in dj.
Hutchinson, 1967,
WILLIS, William. The Hundred Lives of an Ancient Mariner: an autobiography. L: Hutchinson, (1967). Pp 190. Frontis., 8 pages of plates. 8vo, blue cloth. The autobiography of the author of The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters and An Angel on Each Shoulder, a drifter and omnicompetent seaman, a man "who can look Francis Chichester in the face." Slightly rubbed, owner's blindstamp, else vg in slightly rubbed dj. 37.00
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WILLIS, William Hundred Lives of an Ancient Mariner. in dj.
Adventurers Club, London, 1968,
WILLIS, William. The Hundred Lives of an Ancient Mariner . An Autobiography. L.: The Adventurers Club, (1968). Pp. (1)-190,[2]. 8vo, maroon cloth withgilt lettering to spine. The long-time sailor's autobiography, depicting h is time spent aboard square-riggers in his youth, and his efforts to achieve adventure in his later life akin to those as a young man (working on oil rigs, as a logger in the north, and in various solo sailing ventures). Vg in rubbed, spotted, short-closed-torn dj. 20.00
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