Starspinner
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Does anyone have a readable copy of Racundra's First Cruise by Aurther Ransome for sale, mine has been liberated somehow.
Aurther Ransome
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webcraft
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This is currently quite a rare item - two copies on Amazon Z-shops for £35 and £450.
I've got an elderly paperback copy but have had too many rare books go missing to lend it out - but . . .
Fernhurst books website news section sez: "Racundras First Cruise will be published in March 2003. Copies of this new edition may be reserved by contacting Brian Hammett on wrenspark@aol.com"
(<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.fernhurstbooks.co.uk/News.htm>http://www.fernhurstbooks.co.uk/News.htm</A>)
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I've got an elderly paperback copy but have had too many rare books go missing to lend it out - but . . .
Fernhurst books website news section sez: "Racundras First Cruise will be published in March 2003. Copies of this new edition may be reserved by contacting Brian Hammett on wrenspark@aol.com"
(<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.fernhurstbooks.co.uk/News.htm>http://www.fernhurstbooks.co.uk/News.htm</A>)
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Racundra
This correspondent has a hard back first edition (Amazon values sound rather encouraging!), as well as paper back of which there have been several publishers. As Webcraft says, another paperback reprint coming again soon.
This correspondent has a hard back first edition (Amazon values sound rather encouraging!), as well as paper back of which there have been several publishers. As Webcraft says, another paperback reprint coming again soon.
Starspinner
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Re: Racundra
Thanks for the info, I can wait expectantly until march, egards.
Thanks for the info, I can wait expectantly until march, egards.
Magic_Sailor
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I could be wrong but I'm sure I saw a copy in the chandlers at Lymington Marina (closest to the river mouth (I'm too tired to look it up!) when I was in there last week.
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Sunny_Jim
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Whilst you're waiting for "Racundra's First Cruise" - buy a copy of "Racundra's Third Cruise" by Arthur (note correct spelling) Ransome edited by Brian Hammett, published by Fernhurst Books 2002 ISBN 1 898660 89 1.
It reviews Racundra's first and second cruise and describes in Ransome's own words the third cruise during the summer of 1924. The book is well illustrated with photographs both original and recent and the text is taken from previously unpublished diaries and deck logs.
We sailed in company with Brian in the summer of 2000 along much of the track of Ramsome's first cruise in Racundra. It left us with a profound admiration for his skill and courage in tackling the narrow channels of the Moon Sound at night and in bad weather in late autumn. Many of the places he describes (once you get the place names translated to their new forms), still resemble largely those described by Ransome.
With time to spare, that region is most rewarding for cruising yachts - not the least because of the friendly 'natives' and relative low costs of living.
Don't just read about it - GO THERE before it's too late...!
It reviews Racundra's first and second cruise and describes in Ransome's own words the third cruise during the summer of 1924. The book is well illustrated with photographs both original and recent and the text is taken from previously unpublished diaries and deck logs.
We sailed in company with Brian in the summer of 2000 along much of the track of Ramsome's first cruise in Racundra. It left us with a profound admiration for his skill and courage in tackling the narrow channels of the Moon Sound at night and in bad weather in late autumn. Many of the places he describes (once you get the place names translated to their new forms), still resemble largely those described by Ransome.
With time to spare, that region is most rewarding for cruising yachts - not the least because of the friendly 'natives' and relative low costs of living.
Don't just read about it - GO THERE before it's too late...!
Avola
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Racundra's First Cruise (Hardback) with long intro about Ransome's previous sailing in th Baltic and Racundra's subscquent life, will be available from 26th March from Fernhurst books
