Out of Appledore: The Autobiography of a Coasting Shipmaster and Shipowner in the Last Days of Wooden Sailing Ships
William James Slade
ISBN 10: 0851770266 ISBN 13: 9780851770260
Published by Conway Maritime Press, 1972
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Title: Out of Appledore: The Autobiography of a ...
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Paperback
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Out of Appledore: The Autobiography of a Coasting Shipmaster and Shipowner in the Last Days of Wooden Sailing Ships
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Conway Maritime Press, London, England, 1980
ISBN 10: 0851770266
ISBN 13: 9780851770260
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 4th Edition. xxi, 124pp w three appendices. Twenty indexed, unpaginated plates including frontis. This copy has been professionally rebound to cloth (HC). Brown cloth w white lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. Seller Inventory # 043328
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Out of Appledore: The Autobiography of a Coasting Shipmaster and Shipowner in the Last Days of Wooden Sailing. Edited and with a new Preface by Basil Greenhill
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Pappe. Condition: Gut. Revised Edition. 124 S., 24cm Zustand: Pappeinband ohne Schutzumschlag, an der unteren Kante deutlich bestossen, Papier wenig gebräunt --- Inhalt: englischer Text. Mit Frontispiz plus 20 Bildtafeln GEL2-3 ISBN: 9780851770260 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 420. Seller Inventory # 63854
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Out of Appledore; The Autobiography of a Coasting Shipmaster and Shipowner in the Last Days of Wooden Sailing Ships
Published by
Conway Maritime Press, London, 1972
ISBN 10: 0851770266
ISBN 13: 9780851770260
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Photos (illustrator). Revised Edition. Original brown trade paperback. Revised edition. Edited and with a preface by Basil Greenhill. How it all began, I become Master, First World War, Coming of the motors, Depression and an interlude in sail again, Second World War and the end of it all, List of the vessels owned by the Slade Family of Appledore, Notes on the racing of schooners and ketches, Note by Captain J. Whitefield. 124 pp. No writing and only mild surface wear to this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 005925
Out of Appledore: The Autobiography of a Coasting Shipmaster and Shipowner in the Last Days of Wooden Sailing Ships book by William James Slade
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> This book is the life story of a British coasting seaman, shipmaster, and shipowner, in the last years of small wooden merchant sailing ships, written by himself. It is a unique record, a first hand account of a very old way of life which has now completely vanished, and which is very much a part of the history of Britain. The record is the more valuable because it covers the period when that way of life made a partly successful attempt to adapt itself to the changes that were going on around it, before it was finally lost in the general development of the modern world. It falls to very few men to be almost the sole means of preservation of any record of the way of life they followed. This has been W. J. Slade's particular privilege. Through this book and through his very significant contribution to the writing of The Merchant Schooners he has saved the last years of one of the oldest industries from oblivion. There is, as far as I know, only one other comparable record, Captain Hugh Shaw's autobiography which he h. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM517-G-11328
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