The Wanderings of Tom Starboard Or, the Life of a Sailor.

London: John Harris, 1830. China, the Arctic, Africa, South America, the vast Pacific... Tom Starboard saw them all. Here's the Worldcat summary: "A fine, heroic, almost swashbuckling tale, in which the protagonist rescues the wife and children of a boyhood friend when their ship bound for India is wrecked on a rocky island." Interesting work of "swashbuckling" juvenile fiction in that it was written by a woman. Poet, author of books for children, Isabella Jane Towers (1790-1867) contributed to Leigh Hunt's periodicals and published other juvie adventure novels, such as "Perils in the Woods, or, The Emigrant Family's Return." Bound in publisher's 1/4 morocco over marbled boards. Text clean, binding loose but holding. A good copy.. 17 cm. 295, (24 publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved frontispiece and plates