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Printed for Private Circulation, 1925 by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the University Press, Edinburgh. Hardcover, 105 pp. In good condition. Blue cloth covered boards with white titled label pasted on front. Light nicking to cloth at corner tips and light to moderate overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Old book store sticker on bottom corner of front paste-down. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Several pages are unopened. Black and white frontis-piece photo of the Sapphire, R.V.S. NOT Ex-Library. Several pages are unopened. Originally published anonymously but later attributed to Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857 - 1929), this is a collection of Broughton's personal notes written between May 1924 and March 1925 while voyaging on the steam yacht, the Sapphire. Broughton was an English civil engineer who went to work in the United States, married an American heiress, returned to England and was for three-and-a-half years a Conservative Member of Parliament. His wife owned a steam yacht, the Sapphire, and Broughton wrote two accounts of their voyages, one printed for private circulation in 1922 and one published in 1926. This is the account of his first voyage. It includes Broughton's descriptions of all of the ports they visited as well has his musings on the various political, economic and other current events occurring in England and throughout the world at the time. His musings run the gamut from the places and people that he encounters along the way to the results of recent elections in England, his opinions on the state of Jewish affairs and his general dislike of sea travel. Includes a pull-out map at the back entitled Sapphire?s Wanderings in 1924 and 1925 which shows the route from Portsmouth to Singapore and back and all the stops along the way. Also includes facsimile copies of the Log of the Sapphire. N° de ref. del artículo 20201118012
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