Description and condition: Brown cloth hardback, 8vo, pp xiii 474, 8 b/w maps, 3 colour plates, 60 woodcuts within the text. Good copy, sunned spine, fraying to spine ends and corners, hinges starting to crack, one tissue guard is torn, foxing to prelims and scattered within, mostly good clean pages.
Contents: An account of his truly amazing, often extremely dangerous, voyage, observations and explorations 1868 - 1869. Plus full description of his canoe, Rob Roy, equipment and gadgetry, stores, sleeping arrangement, dress, cooking, and full itinerary. Apart from the canoeing, the author is most interested on this voyage in tracing various events in the Bible as they relate to the eye of a sailor. Those events which have anything to do with ships and/or the Jordan are carefully examined. |
