Voyage of Commitment: Morning Star Around the World, by Raymond Triplett, hardcover (good/very good condition) 
 
Over a period of eight years, they alone sailed their twenty-ton ketch Morning Star one and a half times around the world, undeterred by violent storms, groundings on coral reefs, wars, confrontation with pirates, shipwrecks, and skipper's falling overboard, critical illness at sea, and the human problems of adjusting to the exclusive companionship of another for so long a time. Woven throughout the tapestry of this tale is a philosophy and an all-pervading faith in a higher power which enabled these two adventurers to overcome the sometimes seemingly insurmountable physical and spiritual obstacles