Sea-Tracks of the Speejacks: Round The World

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. Vintage Hardcover, Stated First Edition 1923 Doubleday, Page & Company New York 286 pages. Very Good, no DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to green cloth boards with gilt spine titles and gilt front cover pictorial of Speejacks - one corner bumped. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Only flaw is light foxing to the frontispiece and the title page facing it. Map endpapers. Deckled edges. FFEP has the bookstore stamp of Dennen'sBook Shop 37 E. Grand River Detroit, Mich. 27 chapters and 100 illustrations. "Speejacks" was the name of the first motor boat to sail around the world. Warning: book is an account of a 1920-21 circumnavigation of the world in a 99-foot power-yacht (state-of-art for the time) by a wealthy Chicago cement-magnate and his wife and crew. IT IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT. The book is a window into another era. The reader can't help but appreciate the changes that have swept the world since, some good, some bad. Different cultures are encountered, bad weather, risky close-calls, hard conditions and of course, exotic, faraway locales (many decades before Club Med and Hotel Chains spread worldwide)----All aptly and vividly described by Australian writer Dale Collins, who was onboard for the majority of the voyage as the "historian" to the US cement magnate Albert Younglove Gowen, who happened to be on his (second) honeymoon. The following year (1924) Collins wrote the novel Ordeal, which he based on this trip. The novel – about seamen turning on their idle rich passengers – was filmed in 1930 as The Ship from Shanghai, with Louis Wolheim as the ship’s crazed steward who holds them all hostage. A very handsome First edition minus the DJ. LOC SSS-07