Description
Shipwreck
John Fowles
Text by John Fowles; photography by the Gibsons of Scilly.
The Gibson family of the Scillies, starting with John Gibson in the 1860s, have recorded the last moments of ships great and small that have met their end on the deadly rocks and shoals around the Isles of Scilly. This book is a selection of the best of their photographs of maritime disasters.
Paperback. Fair condition. Cover creased at top corners. Small cut through all pages a centre bottom. Mottling at the top of several pages. Inside front cover inscribed, ‘To John Baldry from Cristopher and Jane. Christmas 1985’. Address sticker on first page.
48 pages
B&W photographs
257 mm x 201 mm (10 in x 8 in)
1981, Sphere Books Ltd, London