Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage

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Random House, 1987 - Sports & Recreation - 344 pages
Chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his son Christopher, and a photographer.

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PACIFIC PASSAGE
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AT SEA 19811985
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PATITO
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William F. Buckley (Jr.)
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
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aboard Allan anchor arrived asked Atlantic Azores Bill boat Bora Bora Bravo Zulu Bravo Zulu Three Buckley cabin captain Caribbean celestial navigation Charlie Bravo Zulu charter Christo Christopher Buckley Christopher Little cockpit course Craig's Point crew cruise Cyrano Danny David Niven deck Dick Clurman Dick's dinghy dinner feet finally fish five four Galapagos garbage genoa hand helm Honolulu islands Johnston Atoll Kapinga Kapingamarangi Kavieng knots Kosrae land look Loran Loran-C lunch mainsail Majuro Martin Sheen Mike Charlie Bravo miles minutes morning movie navigation never night Noddy ocean Pacific passage Patito Ponape Port Moresby powerboat Rabaul racing radio reef Reggie sail sailboat saloon satellites Sealestial ship speed star Tahiti tell thing thought told Trimble trip Van's vessel watch waypoint weeks wife wind wrote yacht

About the author (1987)

Editor and writer William F. Buckley, Jr. was born in New York City on November 24, 1925. While at Yale University, he studied political science, history and economics and graduated with honors. In 1955, he founded the weekly journal National Review where he was editor in chief. He began his syndicated newspaper column in 1962 and his weekly television discussion program, Firing Line was syndicated in 1966. Buckley wrote "God and Man at Yale" (1951) which was an indictment of liberal education in the United States, "Up from Liberalism" (1959), "The Unmaking of a Mayor" (1966), which tells of his unsuccessful mayoral campaign as the Conservative Party candidate for New York City in 1965, and "Quotations from Chairman Bill" (1970). Buckley also wrote best selling stories of international intrigue whose titles include "Saving the Queen" (1976), "Stained Glass" (1978), "Who's on First" (1980), "Marco Polo, If You Can" (1981), and "See You Later, Alligator" (1985). He died on February 27, 2008.

Bibliographic information

TitleRacing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage
AuthorWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.)
Photographs byChristopher Little
Editionillustrated
PublisherRandom House, 1987
ISBN0394557816, 9780394557816
Length344 pages
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