Once is Enough Miles Smeeton With a foreword by NEVIL SHUTE
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Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959. First edition of this "unique among books of maritime adventure" (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth.
Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket from the oil painting by John Purser. Foreword by Nevil Shute. An exceptional example. "It is the struggle of these three indomitable sailors for survival and their extraordinary resource . . . that makes their taut journal unique among books of maritime adventure. . . . Tzu Hang and her crew add up not only to survival but to a tale full of sound and fury told by an intrepid but eminently sane survivor" (Times (London) Literary Supplement).
