Author: Downey, Edmund:
Title: Anchor-Watch Yarns: Pictures Of Life In The Coasting Trade.
Description: London, Ward & Downey, 1887 New Edition, H/B Green cloth bds, embossed with surface rubbed, bds a little bowed, bk leans, spine bright and clean with gilt lettering, contents sound and tight, with reviews at front of this book, In One Town and A House of Tears by the same publishers. With story headings such as: Captain Jackson's Yarn; A Fog Yarn; The Landlubber's Yarn; The River Pilot's Yarn; The Yarn of the Shipbuilder; The Yarn of The Phantom Brigantine etc...

Keywords: yarns stories short sailors sea-faring sailing tales phantoms