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8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. 317 + [1] pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has chips at head and tail of strengthened spine and stains on rear wrapper with inside foxing Extremities a little worn and foxing largely confined to endpapers and page edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by map endpapers. The twenty-first novel of Hammond Innes (1913-98), known for his thrillers set in hostile environments. The action here takes place in the Outer Hebrides around the imaginary island of Laerg and features a disastrous military mishap, an evacuation and a storm at sea.