Cappy Ricks - Hardcover

Kyne, Peter B

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0554316064 ISBN 13: 9780554316062

Publisher: BiblioLife, 2008

Synopsis

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

About this title

Synopsis

The reader will readily appreciate therefore the apprehensions which assailed Cappy Ricks when the Blue Star Navigation Company discovered it had on its payroll one Matthew Peasley a Nobody from Nowhere who not only had the insufferable impudence to apply for a job skippering the finest windjammer in the fleet but when rebuffed in no uncertain terms refused to withdraw his application and defied his owners to fire him

About the Author

A native of San Francisco, Peter B. Kyne was a prolific screenwriter and the author of the 1920 bestseller "Kindred of the Dust". His stories of Cappy Ricks and the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company were serialized in "The Saturday Evening ""Post" and William Randolph Hearst's "Cosmopolitan" magazine. He died in 1957.

Edition details

• Publisher: BiblioLife
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0554316064
• ISBN 13: 9780554316062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264