ALBACORA: THE SEARCH FOR THE GIANT BROADBILL. By Eugenie Marron. Edited by Roger Kahn.

1957 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 208mm). Ppviii,214,i. B/w photographs. Cream paper-covered boards with blue cloth to lower third, small swordfish motif in black to upper board, spine and upper board titled in black and green.

"For thirty years Eugenie and Lou Marron have ranged from Nova Scotia to Hong Kong and fished the most exciting waters of the world. Recently they undertook their most ambitious voyage (in collaboration with the University of Miami's Marine Laboratory) to the Humboldt Current, in the Pacific Ocean, where fierce 1,000-pound broadbill swordfish abound. Aboard the Marron's 40-foot cruiser, the Explorer, as it sailed beyond the sight of the highest Andes peak, were a captain from New York, a guide from California, a cameraman from Canada, a scientist from Florida and two crewmen from Chile. In short, seven men and Eugenie. Albacora is her light-hearted story of this angling odyssey".