10,000 Miles to Boston. By Neill ARROW. Sailing from New Zealand to Boston

10,000 Miles to Boston. By Neill ARROW. Sailing from New Zealand to Boston

Hardcover, very good condition, no annotations, minor shelf/edge wear. Dust jacket unclipped, minor edge wear

Publisher: Stein and Day, 1961, first edition

This is the pleasant, compellingly log of the small, heavy, ketch-rigged yacht Miru's voyage from New Zealand to Boston. Neill Arrow, a muscular punster, tells of his Australian boyhood, military service during World War II, and then of his sudden passion for sailing. Of sailing he admits himself a gifted amateur, with no pretensions to nautical techniques for moving small vessels over vast ocean stretches. Master of the Miru is Tom, who knows less than Neill about sailing and is accompanied by his wife Lydia and his two small children. With another lad as helpmate, they set forth on a reverse Kon Tiki course, across the South Pacific to Peru to Panama, through the canal to the Caribbean, up to Miami and then to Boston.

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