BENHAM, HERVEY:: ONCE UPON A TIDE

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BENHAM, HERVEY: : ONCE UPON A TIDE

LONDON.HARRAP,1971.

ISBN 024550804X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus.Revised edn, first edn,1955.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Diagonal clip to top corner title page.8vo,240pp includes pictorial eps,b/w line illus and photographs,bibliography,and 3 indices. Very slight creasing top+bottom edges dw/dj. New revised and updated,this re-issue offers a colourful picture of the ships and seamen of our East Coast seaboard as they were in the two centuries between Defoe and Dickens.Accurately recreates the spirit and splendour of the golden days of English coastal shipping.Benham's lively tale will appeal particularly those who cherish East Anglia's distinctive traditions and value the study of its social history,for this book follows closely the growth and decline of the East Coast ports and traces the development of the many coastal trades which flourished in those years.Pages filled with yarns and anecdotes that bring the places and people alive and recall the age when wrecks were counted by the hundred and smugglers and privateers plied their dangerous trades on land and sea.The easy flowing narrative and numerous complementary illustrations make this book a unique readable record of an era,when the life of the waterside ebbed and flowed with each tide and the steamship and the railway had not yet stripped the sea of sail. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus.
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