beachmen de higgins (5 resultados)

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

4to. 7 x 9.25 inches. ix + [i] + 270 pp. illustrated with maps and photos. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. Map endpaper. A fine copy. Illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, facsimiles, etc. Account of the beach companies of the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts who made a living salvaging wrecked vessels and their cargoes, for which they drove a hard bargain, but also manned the lifeboats. The appendix lists the beach company vessels. Although about East Anglia the feats of heroism of the Beachmen and their lifestyle was much the same as the 'Heroes of the Goodwins' and the comparison is interesting. KENT GOODWIN SANDS KENT - GOODWIN SANDS MARITIME SHIPS 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY KENT.

1987 Lavenham, gebonden met papieromslag 270 blz., geillustreerd. Geschiedenis van het reddingswerk op de Zuidkust van Engeland bij Yarmouth bij de gevaarlijke zandbanken.