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Square Rigger Days brings to the modern reader a rare and vivid glimpse of life in the dying age of sail, combining riveting personal stories with stunning photographs in a superb new edition of this classic work, first published in 1938. The stories of murder, mutiny, starvation and shipwreck that feature persistently in the sailors' memoirs make for truly compulsive reading.
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SQUARE RIGGER DAYS - Autobiographies of Sail
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Reprint of the 1938 original, with the introduction of the 1963 edition. Foreword by Robert D. Foulke. 239 PP with 88 b/w photos. Title spread: the American three-masted Barque Kaiulani. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.2 x 18.5. Nineteen first-hand accounts by the men who served on deep-sea square-riggers. Amongst them: 3 by Capt. J. G. Bisset. 4, by Captain R. Barry O'Brien. 4 by Harry Hine. 2 by Captain W. W. Waddell & J. Anderson. . Seller Inventory # 56926
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Pictorial Card Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Crease to back cover. B&W photos throughout. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. 238 pp. Seller Inventory # 004873
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Book is in very good unmarked condition. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). 238 pages. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN/EAN: 9780868409115. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9275. Seller Inventory # 9275
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