A Sail In A Forest. By Peter Pye. First Edition

A Sail In A Forest. By Peter Pye. First Edition

Hardcover very good hardback with jacket, binding firm, some minor marks, ex owners stamp inside. Jacket unclipped, has some light shelf-wear with minor marks, chipping, and tears.

Publisher: Rupert Hart Davis, 1961

From the cover: “Peter Pye, author of Red Mains’l and The Sea is for Sailing here tells of Moonraker’s cruise in waters that may be less exotic than those in which she voyaged before, but are none the less interesting. As a result of an invitation, more or less out of the blue, from a captain who lived at Kotka at the far corner of Finland, only thirty miles from the Russian frontier, the Pyes set off for a cruise through the Baltic.

This book is not only an entertaining account ‘infused’ as Hammond Innes remarked of The Sea is for Sailing ‘with its author’s own warm personality’ of an eventful cruise through unfamiliar waters. Dr Pye’s ears arc as sharp as his eyes, and the tales he was told by men and women whose lives are always close to the sea, are no less full of wit and wisdom than his shrewd comments on people and places. There are amusing sidelights on Sibelius, the Finnish steam-bath sauna, and even a brief excursion into Lapland, though all Dr Pye’s persuasion could not elicit the truth about that last great despot of square-rig, Gustav Erikson.”

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