NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1969. VG/VG--. Some light chipping and a two-inch closed tear to jacket (front panel bottom). Book in nice condition except for light glue bleed-through along bottom edge of covers and end pages. Endpages decorated with map. 215 pages. Story of the small U.S. frigate which, pursued by larger British war vessels, fled around Cape Horn and into the South Pacific where it captured 12 British whalers, created a new American fleet, and sailed into a series of remarkable adventures in the Galapagos and Marquesas.

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