Sea-Wrack. BULLEN (Frank T.)

With Eight Illustrations.

8vo. [184 x 124 x 23 mm]. vi, [ii], 321, [9] pp. Bound in the original cream wrappers, with the title printed on the front and advertisements on the rear and inside the covers. (A little dust-soiled and rubbed with minor loss to tips of two corners).
London: Macmillan and Co. 1903

Macmillan's Colonial Library edition, "intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies". Printed in the same year as the first edition. A very good copy inscribed in blue ink on the title: "Kindest regards and remembrances of the Tagus to friend Kalisch from F. T. Bullen. Caribbean Sea. May 1 / 1904".

Frank T. Bullen (1857-1915) went to sea in 1869, and by the age of 13 he had twice been shipwrecked and survived two epidemics of yellow fever, a hurricane and two serious illnesses. He served in over 25 ships before becoming a clerk in the Meteorological in 1882. The first of his 36 books, The Cruise of the "Cachalot" was published in 1898 and established his international reputation and comparisons with Joseph Conrad.

Stock no. ebc8132