In the Wake of Drake

Inscribed ('Good Sailing') by the author on the half title page. Book in very good condition with protected dust jacket. All detail inquiries welcome.

400 years ago Francis Drake sailed from England through the Magellan Straits and after relieving the Spaniards in Chile and Peru of their silver and gold, sailed the North Pacific looking for the NW passage. Not finding one he, after annexing California for England, sailed on to complete a fabulous circumnavigation. Ocean Winds II, a modern 33 ft. cruising catamaran set out to try and retrace this epic voyage. Drake's journal was lost. Pat Patterson, the builder/skipper of Ocean Winds, tells in his personal journal, the trials, tribulations and joys of this difficult 40,000 miles sea voyage made sometimes with and sometimes without a crew.'