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Racing through paradise : a Pacific passage

Title
Racing through paradise : a Pacific passage / William F. Buckley, Jr. ; photographs by Christopher Little.
Author
Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Publication
New York : Random House, ©1987.

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Additional Authors
Little, Christopher
Description
xiv, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
Summary
Chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his son Christopher, and a photographer.
Subject
  • Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
  • Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
  • Sealestial (Yacht)
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Setting out : Pacific passage -- Patito -- The angle of Craig's Point -- In & around, Long Island Sound -- Chartering, and a Christmas cruise -- The Azores -- Galapagos, a short stopover -- Tahiti -- The decision : sail the Pacific -- Preparations -- To Johnston Atoll -- The magic of GPS -- At sea -- At Johnston -- To Majuro -- Majuro -- To Kosrae -- Kosrae -- Remembering Phil Weld -- To Kapingamarangi -- Kapinga -- To Kavieng -- Arriving -- the final evening -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0394557816
  • 9780394557816
LCCN
86026209
OCLC
  • ocm14520878
  • 14520878
  • SCSB-1164618
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library