Author: BULLEN FRANK T
Title: A Sack of Shakings
Description: London & Bombay, George Bell. 1901. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. plain green cloth gilt titled spine, rubbed to edges and corners. browned endpapers. Bell's Indian and Colonial Library viii, 389 +16pp adverts at rear, page edges browned, interior quite good. "Shakings are the odds and ends of rope and canvas accumulated during the voyage, which used to be the perquisite of the Chief Mate." Essays and articles many from the Spectator, reprinted in book form, on sailing and the sailors life. Superstitions, big game at sea, battle. author famous for his classic "Cruise of the Cachalot". Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Cachalot Voyages Sailing Exploration


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