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The Lone Voyage of Betty Mouat
de Grant, Roderick
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Librería
-
Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Aberdeen: Impulse Books, 1973 87pp + index. Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅛"). In publisher's decorative cloth boards and illustrated dust jacket. Condition: About Fine in like dust jacket. *** The remarkable story of Betty Mouat (1825-1918), a Shetlander who was the sole passenger on a fishing boat, the "Columbine", from Grutness to Lerwick (two ports on the main Shetland island) where she intended to visit her sister and sell her knitting. Bad weather overtook them, and the skipper was lost overboard. The remaining two crewmen launched a rescue craft but failed to find the captain - and were unable to return to the Columbine. Betty drifted in the boat for nine days with little provisions, until she was rescued off the coast of Norway by fishermen. Her voyage was much celebrated, and Queen Victoria sent her a letter and a cheque for twenty pounds. Included in this book are contemporary photographs of Betty, her rescuers, and the places she visited.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8699
- Título
- The Lone Voyage of Betty Mouat
- Autor
- Grant, Roderick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Impulse Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Aberdeen
- Fecha de publicación
- 1973
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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