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Untamed Coast: Darwin to Sydney in an 18 Ft. Boat
by Mike Leyland & Mal Leyland
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in good dust jacket. dust jacket has a large section missing across bottom of spine, some small chips & tears to edges
- ISBN 10
- 0701801506
- ISBN 13
- 9780701801502
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Warriewood: Lansdowne Publishing Pty Ltd. 1969. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. dust jacket has a large section missing across bottom of spine, some small chips & tears to edges of dust jacket, dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, small bookshop label inside front cover, inscription on FFEP verso. 243 pp. + plates. Illustrations, maps. . When Mike and Mal Leyland and their friend, Trevor Teare, set out to sail from Darwin to Sydney in an 18-foot open boat people said they were mad. The Leylands had had no experience with boats. In fact, they had never sailed outside Sydney Harbour. But they went ahead. The purpose of their trip: to retrace Matthew Flinder's historic voyage of 1802 in H.M.S. "Investigator", using copies of Flinders' original charts and journals.
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- Bookseller
- Masalai Press
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0044578
- Title
- Untamed Coast: Darwin to Sydney in an 18 Ft. Boat
- Author
- Mike Leyland & Mal Leyland
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. dust jacket has a large section missing across bottom of spine, some small chips & tears to edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701801506
- ISBN 13
- 9780701801502
- Publisher
- Lansdowne Publishing Pty Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Warriewood
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- 243 pp. + plates. Illustrations, maps., Australia Description and travel, Coasts Australia, Adventure
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...