Author: PARRY Major Gambier
Title: Sketches on a Yachting Cruise. With Illustrations by the Author. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Description: W H Allen,, 1889. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates; blue pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Crisp copy of a classic period account. Parry sailed extensively throughout the eastern Mediterranean, taking in Algeria, Sicily, Corfu, Albania, Ithaca, Zante, Olympia, Navarino, Hydra, Corinth, Sunium, Marathon, Eurora, Mt. Athos, Vatopedi, Gallipoli, Scutari and Sevastopol.

Keywords: naval, maritime, yachting, cruising, greece, gambier parry


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