A Million Miles In Sail..
Bound in original green cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear and missing section at tail of spine. Top edge blue. Some foxing, largely confined to edges, but otherwise a very good copy.
£25.00
Publisher
Hurst and Blackett Ltd.,
Place
London
Date
[c.1937].
Synopsis
Being the story of the sea career of captain c. c. dixon.
(the paternoster library, number v).
Item Description
8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 254 + [2] pp. + [4] pp. publisher's advertisements.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 8 black and white plates, including portrait frontispiece.
Notes
Reprint of a title first published in 1933. The sea adventures of Charles Chubbock Dixon (b.1873), master of the Elginshire, 1912-19, as interpreted by John Herries McCulloch, Scottish-Canadian author and journalist, now best known for his books on sheepdogs and Border Collies.
[Stock No. 24942]
Subjects
20th Century • Biography • Maritime • Ships • The Sea