Author: BRENDON, JOHN ADAMS
Title: Great navigators & discoverers
Description: London : G. G. Harrap & company 1929. First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight. bright. clean and strong. by J. A. Brendon. With illustrations and maps. Physical description: 281. [1] p. : incl. front. (map) illus. ; 22 cm. Notes: Bookplate & sticker of John Redfearn. Maps on lining-papers. Stories of twenty-four representative sailors from Hanno the Carthaginian to Sir John Franklin. 'In a somewhat more compressed form the narratives have already been printed in the pages of the Blue Peter.'- Foreword. Subject: Sailors. Explorers. Discoveries in geography. Seamen. Exploration. Biographies. Navigation. History. Genre: Text. illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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