9780851770260 - out of appledore: the autobiography of a coasting shipmaster and shipowner in the last days of wooden sailing ships von william james slade (2 Ergebnisse)
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> This book is the life story of a British coasting seaman, shipmaster, and shipowner, in the last years of small wooden merchant sailing ships,…written by himself. It is a unique record, a first hand account of a very old way of life which has now completely vanished, and which is very much a part of the history of Britain. The record is the more valuable because it covers the period when that way of life made a partly successful attempt to adapt itself to the changes that were going on around it, before it was finally lost in the general development of the modern world. It falls to very few men to be almost the sole means of preservation of any record of the way of life they followed. This has been W. J. Slade's particular privilege. Through this book and through his very significant contribution to the writing of The Merchant Schooners he has saved the last years of one of the oldest industries from oblivion. There is, as far as I know, only one other comparable record, Captain Hugh Shaw's autobiography which he h.
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Pappe. Zustand: Gut. Revised Edition. 124 S., 24cm Zustand: Pappeinband ohne Schutzumschlag, an der unteren Kante deutlich bestossen, Papier wenig gebräunt --- Inhalt: englischer Text. Mit Frontispiz plus 20 Bildtafeln GEL2-3 ISBN: 9780851770260 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 420.
