Last Of The Sailormen..
Bound in original blue cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. A very fine copy.
£12.00
Publisher
Routledge and Kegan Paul.,
Place
London
Date
1973
Item Description
Reprint of 1960 edition. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. x + [ii] + 137 pp. with photographic and drawn illustrations.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 12 photographic plates, including frontispiece and 7 sketches by Anne Roberts.
Notes
Autobiography of the East coast barge master who commanded the Greenhithe and the Cambria, the last big coasting barge. 'The material was not collected - it was lived, for the author's study was a barge's cabin.'
[Stock No. 22069]
Subjects
Kent • Maritime • Ships • Spritsail Barges