The Nautilus Library no. 16: Across Three Oceans: A Voyage in the Yacht 'Saoirse' by Conor O'Brien
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The 'Nautilus Library' begun in the 1920s, and built up to more than thirty volumes. A few were given slightly different titles but most were classic nautical works issued in a pocket sized edition by Philip Allan, who owned the copyright to many of the original editions.

ACROSS THREE OCEANS

A Voyage in the Yacht 'Saoirse'

by Conor O'Brien

First 1927 by Edward Arnold, London
Second edition NAUTILUS LIBRARY No. 16 1931 by PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD

Shiny blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean with corners sharp - nautilus bright. Page block side and bottom edges rough cut but neater than normal for these editions. Although there are a a few fox spots on first and last few, the spages are generally clean and tidy. No inscriptions. Book's condition VERY GOOD PLUS.
Price £9.00 plus postage

The worn dust wrapper, although not quite complete, is sunned - particularly the spine area, torn, rubbed and taped - Click here for larger image of jacket.

251 pages. Volumes are 115 mm. wide; 175 tall and about 18 mm. thick. Weight unwrapped approximately 220 grams.

Blurb

ACROSS THREE OCEANS; A Voyage in the Yacht 'Saoirse'. Connor O'Brien, educated in England, a Republican and an adventurous mariner, with three companions sailed around the world, 1923 to 1925, in the thirteen metre yacht 'Saoirse' which was built to his own design. 'Saoirse' was one of the first vessels to fly the Irish Free State's tricolour.

  

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ACROSS THREE OCEANS by Conor O’Brien: The dust wrapper, although not quite complete, is sunned - particularly the spine area, torn, rubbed and taped - Click here for larger image of jacket.

ACROSS THREE OCEANS by Connor O’Brien (NAUTILUS LIBRARY No. 16): Shiny blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean with corners sharp - nautilus bright. Place cursor on image of title page, right, to see condition of front board.

PREFACE TO CHEAP EDITION

SINCE I wrote this book I have made a considerable study of Ocean Yachting, which has upset many of the conclusions which I drew from insufficient experience and printed in the first edition. That contained a chapter which was wholly didactic, and is now so much out of date that I have suppressed it, dispersing such matter as I still think of value through the rest of the work. Accordingly the opinions which will be found expressed in the following pages are not necessarily those which I held at the time of the incidents which evoked them, though, for the sake of tidiness, they have been spliced into the narrative as neatly as I could tuck
them.

CONOR O'BRIEN.
January 1931.

CONTENTS

I. WAYS AND MEANS
II. CROSSING THE ATLANTIC
III. TO THE EASTWARD
IV. A SOUTH AFRICAN INTERLUDE
V. THE INDIAN OCEAN
VI. AUSTRALASIA
VII. TONGA
VIII. CAPE HORN
IX. THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
X. SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS
XI. THE RETURN

 

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