My Lively Lady

New York: David McKay Company, 1969. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. First American edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket base stained, front jacket flap price-clipped. Base stained. 1969 Hard Cover. 185 pp. An account of a single-handed voyage around the world. Alec Rose describes how he gradually built up his plans for the trip; the disasters, gales and loneliness of the trip itself, the eventual arrival at Portsmouth, 318 days after setting out and his knighthood a few days after his return.