Author: Maxwell, Donald.
Title: A CRUISE ACROSS EUROPE. Notes on a Freshwater Voyage From Holland to the Black Sea.
Description: London: John Lane the Bodley Head/New York: John Lane Company, 1907. 1st Ed. 254pp. + [ii] + [iv] publishers adverts. Colour tipped in frontis., vignette title page, 4 maps, profusely ills. by the Author and Cottington Taylor. F.e.ps. browned, ownership signature, sporadic spotting, original gilt lettered cream pictorial cloth lettered and ruled in black to upper board, lightly browned and spotted, corners sl. bumped, edges sl. spotted, spine browned and sl. bumped, t.e.g. ¶ Toy 1254 ‘A cruise in the Walrus in 1905 up the Rhine and Main, through Ludwig’s Canal to the Danube, and down to the Black Sea. The author and his companion were arrested twice as spies, once in Holland and once in Hungary. The voyage took approximately five months. Walrus: Dutch-style leeboard gaff-ridden sloop. 1.5 tons displacement.’

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; EUROPE


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