Description and condition:

Hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 220pp, maps.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

What was life like aboard a British vessel in the last great days of the Merchant Navy? Richard Woodman takes us in one of the Holt Line's China Boats on a typical trip out of Liverpool, to the Far East and back again by way of Suez.The time is 1960s and it is a style of seafaring now totally lost among today's container ships and roll-on roll-off ferries.