International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost.These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to looking or buying. · Customs fees are normally charged by the shipping company or collected when you pick the item up. These fees are not additional shipping charges.· We won't under-value merchandise or mark the item as a gift on customs forms. Doing that is against U.S. and international laws.OVERBOARD A NOVEL by Hank Searls, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, printed in 1977.This item is a book 5 3/4" by 8 1/2" 247 page hardcover copy. This book is in good condition with some soiling and rubbing of the covers; previous owner’s name is written inside; the pages are readable, clean and tight, I did not see any writing on the pages. Contest includes: she had vanished while he slept. Sometimes before dawn, one infinitesimal speck detaching itself from another under unseeing stars. And now as the sun rose astern, the southeast trades began to die so that is speed slackened and his search slowed. He sagged nude at the helm, shivering in panic, alone with a cat forty miles from the nearest island. In early apricot light, he was still backtracking. He forced himself to look at his watch. It was 5;15 A.M. papeete time. the ketch had been pounding southeast, steered by a wind-vane, bound from Bora Bora to Tahiti, now seventy miles away. In darkness at 3:12 A.M., he had discovered that she was gone. At that time he had been, roughly, fifty miles from Moorea upwind, with Raiatea forty miles to leeward. When the first instant of paralysis had passed and he found that he could function, he had dropped the man-overboard flag, tied to a lifebuoy and a floating strobe light, he had acted instructively, but perhaps, and much, much more.This book does not have illustrations. Thanks for Looking. L57/12.8/910DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUR STORE, WE HAVE A GOOD SELECTION OF BOOKS AND VINTAGE POSTCARDS FOR A VERY GOOD PRICE AND WE SELL BOOKS BY LOTS TOO. Powered by eCRATER . List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.
