Close to the Wind by John Harris and other story excerpts - Vintage Hardcover

Description: Description from goodreads.com: A story of an Italian-Australian family down on their luck, who embark on a daring sea voyage to escape having their only asset taken from them--their boat. They need an extra hand, and take on stranger, a young man with an uncertain past, who turns out to be fleeing the police. The challenges they face bond them together and change each of them forever. A beautifully told tale. This book also contains excepts from It Seems Like Yesterday by HV Kaltenborn, The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall, Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, and My and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. Click on the 'Visit Store' link above to find many other interesting books, magazines, games and other items in It Was the Best of Times for a Book. If you purchase more than one item in a single transaction, ebay adds the shipping charges instead of calculating them. I do refund excess paid shipping. Thank you for looking.

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Year Printed: 1957

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Topic: Adventure

Binding: Hardcover

Region: North America

Book Title: Close to the Wind

Custom Bundle: No

Book Series: Best-in -Books

Author: Mixed Authors

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Narrative Type: Fiction

Inscribed: No

Original/Facsimile: Original

Intended Audience: Adults

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Publication Year: 1957

Language: English

Type: Hardcover

Format: Hardcover

Genre: Adventure

Signed: No

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday

Place of Publication: New York