Author: BATSTONE, TIM
Title: Round Britain Windsurf - 1800 Miles on a 12ft Board
Description: Newton Abbot, David and Charles. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0715387537). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 224 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs, drawings, diagrams and maps. The author mounted an expedition that was to earn him a place in the Guinness Book of Records and raise over 40,000 pounds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, persuading Charles Heidsieck, the champagne company, to back his project. He describes his clashes with the elements on his marathon 1800 mile journey - force 9 gales, monster waves and ferocious tide races, hazrds of local shipping, encounters with marine life, and his private battles with seasickness and exhaustion. 2. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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