Author: BULLEN, FRANK T.
Title: The Cruise of the Cachalot -and- the Log of a Sea-Waif (Collins New Classics Series)
Description: London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1953. Hardcover. A 1958 reprint edition of Frank T. Bullen's accounts of his days onboard sailing ships. "The Cruise of the Cachalot" (1898) tells of a round-the-world voyage on a whaler to the South Seas from its base in New Bedford, Massachusetts and back. In "Log of a Sea-Waif" (1906) he describes his recollections of the first four years of his sea life. Includes an introduction by Hammond Innes and a frontis drawing of Bullen. --- Bound in full blue cloth-covered boards with simple gilt spine titling, grey patterned endpapers and faded blue topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- An unmarked, tightly bound copy, though with mild sunning to spine & a strip on top of front cover, and a splotch of brown soiling (coffee?) to textblock fore-edge.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 447 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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