Author: HAGELUND, W. [WILLIAM] A. (SIGNED)
Title: Flying the Chase Flag - the Last Cruise of the West Coast Whaler
Description: Toronto: The Ryerson Press/The Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 194 pages. Endpapers illustrated with cross-section of typical whaler. "The facts of the last voyage of the S.S. Carmel were more exciting than fiction. The whaling fleet of Victoria (British Columbia) is no more, but many of the colourful men who sailed these ships still sail the B.C. coast. There is no other livelihood where a group of people of all races and creeds gather to live and work together in a place of more constant peril and danger for months on end, with only their faith in those who command and walk the bridge to bring them safely home again." - from Foreword. Book unmarked with moderate wear to blue boards. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Flying the Chase Flag - The Last Cruise of the West Coast Whaler S.S. Carmel British Columbia Strait of Georgia Vancouver Island Whaling Biography Hagelund, W. [William] A. (Signed); Signed by Author(s). Good in Fair dust jacket .

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