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GOLDING, MIKE: : NO LAW, NO GOD: the fastest solo circumnavigation against winds and currents. [ Authoe SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1994.

ISBN 0340618175.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with black-outlined gold lettering and other white lettering to front panel,white spine/backstrip with thumbnail photographic detail from front photograph and black-outlined gold letters and black lettered publisher,rear panel with colour photograph; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Top edges lightly aged/toned with faint sporadic dust flecks,fore-edges similar but slightly brighter,cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – near pristine,appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,25-190pp [paginated] includes an introduction by jorgen Philip-Sorensen (Chairman and Chief Executive, Group 4 Securitas (International),12 chapters,16pp conteMporary colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp64/5 and pp160/61 respectively, appendices (1-4); plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,contents list/table,foreword by Chay Blyth,author's acknowledgement, illustrations list/table+credits,charts, b/w chart maps,double-page b/w cut-away illustration of yacht,and b/w double-page of world circumnavigation world map route. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the faults described that prevent a higher grading. Below 40º South - no law; below 50 South - no God.So went the old Newfoundland whaler saying in the last century and for those under sail it still holds true today. Of all the ocean-going challenges to single-handed yachtsmen,a nonstop circumnavigation id one of the world's toughest.When that voyage is made against the prevailing conditions from east to west,it represents the supreme test of man and boat.Smallw onder Chay Blyth's record for sailing the wrong way round the world has stood for two decades. Now,twenty-two years on,Mike Golding has smashed Blyth's record by a staggering 125 daysmsailing the British SteelChallenge yacht Group 4 to win the Group 4 Securitas-sponsored Global Challebge Trophy and also establish a new Ushant circumnavigation record of 161 days. The voyage was aboard the same 67-ft all steel yacht which he had slippered in the 1992-93 British Steel Challenge race, winning two of the four legs over the same course.Then he had a crew of thirteen and three stopping places.Between November 1993 and May 1994 he had to learn how to nurse the large yacht alone and judge the fine line of racing single-handed into the teeth of the worls'd most hostile sailing environment with no port to run to and no places to hide from the blast of the roaring forties and the screaMing fifties. By the time he had rounded the Horn - the big challenges come early for easT-west sailors - he was already twehty-three days up on the record.But the Southern Ocean is unrelenting and he was quickly confronted with intermittent autopilot failure,then total generator failure,with the worse weather yet to come in the Southern Indian Ocean.Even the Atlantic on the hoMeward run gave no respite and two knock downs in the doldrums threatened to finish the voyage on the last straight. Mike Golding's account of his remarkable voyage is retold from his daily log with a freshness and immediacy that comes compellingly off the page and is interwoven with memories of earlier ocean racing experiences.Above all 'No Law, No God' conveys the hour by hour seamanship and dogged tenacity without which the yacht's state of the art equipment wouldbe pointless.It is a testimony to man's enduring spirit of adventure under sail. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
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