Jack Nastyface, Memoirs of an English Seaman

by Robinson, William

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Bookseller: Wolf's Head Books
Seller Inventory #: 002069
Format: Hardcover
Jacket condition: Dust Jacket Included
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London Wayland 1973.
Date published: 1973

Book Description

London Wayland 1973., 1973 VG+/Vg+ dj. 157p; intro by Oliver Warner; a reprintof first published "Nautical Economy" in 1836; illus; gives descriptions of life on lower deck inthe classical days of Navy life; Nastyface was Robinson, who fought at Trafalgar in 1805 and events dsurrounding the long war with Napoleonic France which lasted until 1815; press gang, floggings, keep-haulings; this edition illus by George Cruikshank, contemporary of Jack and classic caricaturist. 1st thus edition.. Hardcover.

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