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Master Of Cape Horn. The Story of a Square-rigger Captain and his World. William Andrew Nelson, 1839-1929. Signed copy.
by FALKUS, HUGH:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London. Victor Gollancz LTD. 1982 1st.. 10.0 x 7.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Author’s inscription to early page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 160 pp. With 10 colour plates, b/w photographs and some illustrations in text. Taken from William Nelson’s logbooks and brief autobiography, this is an account of the life of one of the last men to captain a Square -rigger sailing ship, making his last voyage, aged 70. Captain Wilson died in 1929.
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- Title
- Master Of Cape Horn. The Story of a Square-rigger Captain and his World. William Andrew Nelson, 1839-1929. Signed copy.
- Author
- FALKUS, HUGH:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London. Victor Gollancz LTD. 1982 1st.
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHIES/LETTERS/DIARIES Dustwrapper First Edition Illustrated Books Maritime Foreign travel History Signed
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- Gilt
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