Xiv, [2], 344 pages, 8 color plates, well illustrated, text maps, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dust jacket: "Racing Through Paradise is Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy. Here the irrepressible, eloquent, enjoyable Buckley guides us through his beloved Azores, and through the Galapagos ('the Bronx Zoo at the Equator'), about which he inclines more to Melville's view than to Darwin's, and through places such as Johnston Atoll, where mysteries and hostilities await. He adroitly excerpts the candid journals of his shipmates, notably that of his son, Christopher, himself a best-selling novelist. The fine photographs by Christopher Little illustrate throughout."

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