Description
The Wonderful Story of the Sea
Editor H Wheeler
Hardback. No dust jacket. Small marks on spine. Motif debossed on cover. 4cm split at bottom of spine. Decorative endpapers foxed. Inside pages in good condition.
Contents include:
On the bridge with the captain
Secrets of the engine roomSafety first at sea
Smuggling and wrecking
Building the Queen Mary
Blue riband of the Atlantic
Laying the first Atlantic cable
Pirates and their kind
Disasters and mysteries
Weird superstitions of the sea
512 pages, 1.65 kg
B&W photographs
190 mm x 250 mm (approx. 7.5 in x 9.75 in)
1936[?], Odhams Press Ltd, London