"Here is Alex Rose's own story which includes two heroines, Lively Lady his boat, and Dorothy his wife. He tells it in his own words and writes of his early days, first as a rather delicate youngster, and then of his ventures in market gardening and of how he took to the sea. He describes how he came to race single-handed across the Atlantic and how he gradually built up the plans towards his life's ambition of a voyage alone round Cape Horn." --- Signed and Dated by Author on Title Page. --- Original dark blue papered boards, lettered gilt on spine (22.1 cm height). Illustrated dustwrapper, now protected. Illustrated endpapers: Front: A rogue sea in the open ocean, Rear: Map of Course Round the World. Top edge tinted apricot. Pp. xii (i blank) 193 including Acknowledgements, Introduction - Why Alone?, Double Page Sketch of Cutaway of Lively Lady, List of Plates (35), List of Maps (Endpaper + 7), List of Drawings (Cutaway + 5), Appendices: 1: Lively Lady - The Yacht (Douglas Phillips Birt), 2: Lively Lady's Wind-Vane Steering (H. G. Hasler), 3: Stores and Provisioning (Alec Rose), 4: Weathering Storms (Alec Rose).

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Title: My Lively Lady
Publisher: Nautical Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., Lymington / London, Toronto, Wellington, Sydney
Publication Date: 1968
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0245595651
ISBN 13: 9780245595653
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Weight: 500 grams
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.

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