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Ate the Dog Yesterday
Graham Faiella
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Description for Ate the Dog Yesterday
Paperback. Compelling true-life stories about mariners' dreadful experiences at sea during the heyday of deep-sea commercial sail. Recounted mainly as original narratives compiled from the Casualties columns and pages of Lloyd's List. A wealth of fascinating topics including strandings, mutiny, murder, messages in a bottle and seaquakes. Num Pages: 480 pages, liberally illustrated with engravings, maps and photographs. BIC Classification: BTP; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 240 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1256.
A selection of true-life dramas that chronicle the perils and misfortunes faced by deep-sea sailing ships of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It relates the dangers faced and the battles waged, and all too often lost, against the hazards of the sea. Shipboard work was hard and often routinely dangerous for crews who bore the extraordinary hardships as their duty to obey their captains and drive their ships to a safe port to discharge or take on cargoes. From remarkable voyages, mutinies, hoaxes, curiosities and disease, to messages in a bottle, this book has a fund of amazing ... Read more
A selection of true-life dramas that chronicle the perils and misfortunes faced by deep-sea sailing ships of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It relates the dangers faced and the battles waged, and all too often lost, against the hazards of the sea. Shipboard work was hard and often routinely dangerous for crews who bore the extraordinary hardships as their duty to obey their captains and drive their ships to a safe port to discharge or take on cargoes. From remarkable voyages, mutinies, hoaxes, curiosities and disease, to messages in a bottle, this book has a fund of amazing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Whittles Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1255g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Caithness, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849950893
SKU
V9781849950893
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Graham Faiella
Graham Faiella is an author and editor with particular interests in maritime history, sailing and languages.
Reviews for Ate the Dog Yesterday
`…is part drama but all factual record of those years when shipwreck was commonplace, taken mainly from the Casualty columns of Lloyd’s list newspaper. Great disasters…are reported, plus many others, in this weighty book; hours of discovery await the armchair sailor or maritime historian. There is treasure here…’ Dog Watch
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