Sailing Drifters: The Story of the Herring Luggers of England, Scotland and The Isle of Man
PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
David Charles: Newton Abbot, and International Marine Publishing Company, Maine, USA.
BINDING
Green cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITION
A little general shelf wear to boards. Former owners library sticker on flyleaf. Printed pages and illustrations largely clean and unmarked.
DUST JACKET
Generally tatty, with tearing, creasing and some pieces missing. previously mended with tape. We have preserved it in removable book wrap.
EDITION
1972 third impression of 1969 re-issue. First published 1952.
DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with 191 black and white plates, 76 sketches and diagrams and 28 scale plans of vessels described. 382 pp, Quarto.
SYNOPSIS
An illustrated history of the huge fleets of sailing drifters that once fished around the British Isles, and the men who worked them.