Description:
Quarto. Hard cover. Light orange cloth publishers binding depicting the ship at sea and a shore scene with nautically themed decorations. [iv] 192pp. Decorative end papers with repeating ship and swan motifs. Hand written gift inscription from the Whitefield Tabernacle Book Society (London) to the front free end paper. Shelf wear to covers and spine with a little "delamination" of the cloth. Front hinge starting.Accounts of three separate voyages entitled "A Voyage in the Sunbeam", " Sunshine and Storm in the East" and "In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties." Each 64pp double columns and profusely illustrated.
Anna Brassey was an English traveler, writer and accomplished photographer who wrote bestselling travel diaries of her sea voyages around the world.