William Willis SIGNED The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters Pacific Ocean

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The Epic Voyage of the Seven Little Sisters: A 6700-Mile Voyage Alone Across the Pacific by William Wallis


Signed by the author on the title page (without dedication); Hutchinson 1955 1st ed, 244pp., text generally in decent order albeit with two very small date stamps to the front free end paper & one to the rear end paper, author's photo/plate opposite the title page coming
loose, very small creases to the bottom corners of some of the pages, browning & staining to the page extremities at the very top, slight
browning/staining/scuffing to those at the side & bottom, spine cocked, bumping & rubbing to board corners & to the top, bottom &
sides of boards - heavier to the top & bottom of the spine with some fading (some creasing through the top part of the spine), both boards a bit marked, the dust jacket is very tatty.

William Willis (September 8, 1893 – July 1968) was an American sailor and writer who is famous due to his solo rafting expeditions across oceans.

Willis became a sailor at 15, leaving his home in Hamburg, Germany, to sail around Cape Horn. A few days after New Year's Day 1938, Willis rented a room in New York City from a French immigrant named Madame Carnot. Her son, Bernard Carnot, had been sent to Devil's Island in 1922 for a murder that he did not commit. Out of compassion and a sense of adventure, Willis set out to the penal colony to effect Bernard Carnot's escape, which he eventually accomplished.

During his first solo expedition in 1954 from South America to American Samoa, he sailed 6,700 miles – 2,200 miles farther than did
Thor Heyerdahl on Kon-Tiki. His raft was named "Seven Little Sisters" and was crewed by himself, his parrot, and cat. Willis was age 61 at the time of this voyage. He selected the seven great balsa tree trunks which were used in the raft (hence the name Seven Little Sisters)
himself at a balsa forest on a great inland estate. His (American) wife saw him off at the dockside in Callao, Peru. In an incident with
the raft in the docks the day before sailing, Willis ruptured himself (suffered a hernia), but nonetheless set sail as planned.


At age 74, Willis made his third attempt at a solo crossing of the North Atlantic in a small sailboat. Willis left Montauk Point, Long Island on May 2, 1968, in his boat Little One. On September 24, 1968, the crew of the Soviet Latvian trawler Yantarny sighted his
half-submerged boat nearly 400 miles west of the Irish coast. No one was found on board. Willis' log was found on the boat, with its last
entry dated July 21, 1968.

Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged.


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  • Binding: Hardback
  • Personalised: No
  • Place of Publication: United Kingdom
  • Non-Fiction Subject: Adventure, Travel & Sailing
  • Signed: Yes
  • Publisher: Hutchinson
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Year Printed: 1955
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Signed
  • Author: William Willis
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

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