8vo. xx, 379 pp. Publisher’s full cloth, decorated with a whale on front cover. Illustrated in black & white. Folding map. Endbands a little worn, otherwise nice. Ex libris.
Kommentar: “At the age of eighteen, after a sea-experience of six years from the time when I dodged about London streets, a ragged Arab, with wits sharpened by the constant fight for food, I found myself roaming the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts. … Sailor Jack is always hankering for shore when he is at sea, but when he is “outward bound” – that is, when his money is all gone – he is like a cat in the rain there.”
