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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. MARKED FOR MISFORTUNE This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

20.5 x 13.0cms 288pp b/w illusts very good hardback & cover This book details John Dale's fortunes after the Winterton struck a reef off the coast of Madagascar.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 288 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the August of 1792 the East Indiaman Winterton, with her precious cargo of 300,000 silver dollars, was wrecked on a reef off Madagascar. As the ship broke up, the 300 crew and passengers clung to pieces of wreckage, eventually to be washed up, exhausted, on the beach. More than 40 of them perished in the surf. John Dale, the second senior surviving officer, rigged up the ship's yawl and set off with six officers to fetch help. But his efforts were marred by tragedy and misfortune. By the time he returned, alone, seven months later malaria had wiped out almost half the original survivors. And their ill luck did not stop there. War had since broken out between England and France, and on route to Madras the group was captured and imprisoned on Mauritius before finally gaining passage to India, while Dale himself was impressed into service on a French privateer, liberated by the Dutch and then taken prisoner again by the French, before reaching English shores more than two years after he had first set sail. Jean Hood has chronicled a fascinating episode in maritime history, which has all the more resonance for being rooted in the quiet heroism, the dignity, the suffering and courage of the sailors and passengers, men, women and children whose fate it was to board the 'doomed' Winterton. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: as new. hardcover, with dustjacket - name first page, else as new - naam op schutvel, verder NIEUWSTAAT.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. The book and dw are in very good condition .An epic tale of shipwreak, human endeavour and survival in the age of sail.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 8'' x 5¼'' pages. ISBN 0851779417. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unopened new book. Original Press Release slip and the original separate sales receipt from HarperCollins enclosed. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHIPPING (Liners, Merchant).

Zustand: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich 2003. 288 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Orig. boards in dust wrapper. Near fine/Near fine wrapper.