Author: HOPE, EVA (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANNE HEARN)
Title: Grace Darling the Heroine of the Farne Isles
Description: London, England: Walter Scott, Limited, 0. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some lightish bumping, rubbing and edge wear, and a couple of small nicks. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are occasional spots of foxing and several pages of the book have words underlined - mostly to the middle of the book. The front endpaper has an ink stamped book lending shop name (two times) This is a fictionalized biography of Grace Darling: "Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of the crew were saved. " (from Wikipedia). Good .

Keywords: Eva Hope Biography Ships & Sailing Coast Guard Shipwrecks Grace Darling


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