Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 230 pp., b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover with light edgewear and browning, now protected.

Contents:

A record of day-to-day life aboard the Australian square-rigger Winterhude, a grain-ship sailing the oceans. Brown describes the routine working of the ship, as well as more spectacular episodes, the fatigue, the squalor, the companionship and the excitement.