The Sea the Ship and the Sailor: Tales of Adventure From Log Books and Original Narratives by Snow, Elliot; Various Authors

Introduction by U.S. Navy Capt. Elliot Snow. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1925. 1st edition in dust jacket. VG/Good. Five first-hand accounts of seafaring in the 1700s and 1800s. Compelling tales of adventure, discovery and hardship on sea and land. Featuring stories of travels to remote lands, shipwrecks and castaways, captivity, the transport of female convicts, hostile natives, and more. Illustrated by 32 plates of maps, portraits, reproductions. The contents are: A narrative of the adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard of New York, during a voyage round the world (1812-1816), with an account of his abandonment and solitary life for two years on one of the Falkland islands …. The adventures of John Nicol, mariner, during thirty years at sea … A journal of a voyage in the brig Spy of Salem (1832-1834), John B. Knights, master … The remarkable transactions which took place at the Tonga islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, during the captivity of William Mariner, one of the survivors of the Port au Prince privateer which was destroyed by the natives … A narrative of events in the life of John Bartlett of Boston, Massachusetts, in the years 1790-1793, during voyages to Canton, the northwest coast of North America and elsewhere. xviii, 353 pages, index. Thick clothbound hardcover, 9.5 by 6.5 inches. Bound in blue linen with gilt spine lettering and decoration. Illustrated endpapers. VG in Good dust jacket. Book is clean and unworn. Sound, tight binding. Old bookseller label (Brentano’s of NY) in the rear of the book. Foxing to the edges of the title page. Text pages generally clean but with some limited intermittent foxing. The scarce dust jacket is intact after 90+ years but shows moderate chipping, tears and some creasing at the edges. Protected by a new clear archival cover..