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The Custom of the Sea
Hardback cloth boards,Dust-Jacket
Publisher: Doubleday 1999
Condition: Near Fine: dust-jacket near-fine gift inscription
First Edition,History
ISBN: 0385600836
On 5 July 1884 the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling seas and hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty-foot wave. A true story of the voyage and subsequent court case that outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean boats.
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