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Buy this book on-line PERHAM,MIKE: : SAILING THE DREAM: The amazing true story of the schoolboy who sailed single-handed around the world.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.BANTAM PRESS,/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS,2010. ISBN 9780593065983.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,blue ink inscrptn+signature to title page: 'Live the Dream Mike Perham' and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt autobiographical colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with purple+black lettering to front panel and spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges slightly aged/toned,fore-edges less so,but all bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,dark blue+silver striped headband and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED, 1st edn,1-291pp [paginated]includes a prologue,Pts 1-5 comprising 20,11,6,6,6 chapters respectively,an epilogue, acknowledgements,photograph acknowledgements,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,a dedication,contents list/table,an epigram,double-page b/w world circumnavigation route map with superimposed 3 b/w seascape+
autobiographical photographs at foot of same and an unpaginated note about the author as the last page.
More people have been in space than have sailed solo around the Earth.It is a journey fraught with danger at every turn,
with little time for sleep or pause for rest.It is the toughest challenge in the nautical world.At the age of seventeen,
Mike Perham joined the select band of sailors to achieve that feat.
In 'Sailing the Dream',Mike tells the story of the incredible 30,000-mile voyage that made him the youngest circumnavigator in history.As he raced across the waves in his Open 50 yacht 'Totally Money.com',the journey soon became a struggle against wild seas,failing equipment and the loneliness of the long-distance sailor.
Despite the boat's being knocked over and battered by the oceans and having to put in for damage repairs that turned the trip into a nine-month odyssey,Mike battled on,
surfing down fifty-foot waves at speeds of up to 28 knots to realize his goal.
Yet through all the difficulties,Mike's positive attitude shines through.'Sailing the Dream' is an inspirational and thrilling tale of adventure on the high seas,and of how you can be as big as the dreams you dare to live.
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