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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10561391952164 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1407 (1083) |
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Description
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
by Bill Belcher
DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 0002169525
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Collins 1979, 1st edition
Size (mm): 145 w x 220 h x 20 h
Pages: 190
SKU: A5/2605/0365/K553
ABOUT
A harrowing true account of survival at sea, following the author's 28-day ordeal after his yacht was wrecked on a remote reef in the Tasman Sea.
The story of how Bill, winner of the 1974 Trans-tasman single handed race, New Plymouth to Mooloolaba, Queensland, had started in the 1978 race but had gone missing. The media ran the story of the race's organisers reluctance to institute a search. The eventual air search located Bill's Josephine II on the notorious Middleton Reef, but HMAS Swan could find no trace of Bill and the life raft.
After 28 days of drifting in the raft, Bill was picked up by a Nauru-bound ship.
Illustrated throughout with monochrome images, illustrations and maps, maps on end papers.
CONDITION
Immaculate with only light wear/spine fading on dust jacket, faint spotting on end papers and page edges, pages otherwise clean, no stamps or inscriptions. Images depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
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