Author: ATKINSON, JENNI
Title: A Girl in Square Rig - Four Months Before the Mast
Description: London, Arlington. 1977, First. (ISBN: 0851402658). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is price-clipped. 203 pages. 34 illustrations. Details of Brigantine Phoenix endpapers. The true story of a young Engish girl who fulfilled her dream and gave up normal office life in London to join the 1976 Tall Ships Race - ten thousand miles from Plymouth via the Canaries and Bermuda to New York and back again. Jenni Atkinson sailed as a deck-hand on the square-rigger Phoenix, one of only two women at sea with 25 men for weeks on end. Phoenix was the only unsponsored, privately entered ship in the race - and the only square-rigger to complete the entire course. 4. Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Square-Rigger Phoenix, Tall Ships Race 0851402658