BULLEN, FRANK T. (FIRST MATE) - Frank Brown Sea Apprentice

Philadelphia, PA: David Mckay, Publisher, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stephen Reid. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This edition includes 8 full color, full page illustrations by Stephen Reid. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have several small to medium sized edge tears to the front spine joint and front flap joint. "In order to make it plain to my readers that the following pages may be read without danger of acquiring false information about the sea, or the ways of its servants, I beg to say that every incident recorded is fact, either well authenticated by others, or personal experience of my own." "Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915) , British author and novelist, was born of poor parents in Paddington, London, on 5 April 1857, and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9 he left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and travelled to all parts of the world in various capacities including that of second mate of the Harbinger and chief mate of the Day Dawn, under Capt. J. R. H. Ward jun. In 1883 he became a clerk in the Meteorological Office until 1889. His reputation was made over the publication of The Cruise of the "Cachelot" (1898) ; and he also wrote, amongst other books, Idylls of the Sea (1899) ; Sea Wrack (1903) ; The Call of the Deep (1907) and A Compleat Sea Cook (1912) , besides many articles and essays. He lectured extensively and was highly critical of Australasia's lack of defences against what he saw as imminent naval threats from Germany and Japan. He died at Madeira on 1 March 1915.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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