The Boy's Own Sea Stories: Being The Adventures of a Sailor in The Navy, The Merchant Service, and on A Whaling Cruise.

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8vo. (125x188mm), pp: viii+[1]-424, engraved and printed title pages, frontispiece, vignette title and 10 plates, complete as listed, with a gift inscription dated 1861 to front endpaper, (possibly the first edition having 12 not 14 illus. and pre 1861 when Ward and Lock moved to Amen corner.) Blue pebble grain cloth with ornate gilt spine and gilt title with gilt sailor to front cover, light wear and fading, however sound, tight and very good. Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer. He was born in Erwitte, Germany (Prussia) in 1830 and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1835. Was educated in Cincinnati, and apprenticed to a printer in 1843, then in a newspaper office in Philadelphia. He then joined the United States Navy in 1845 (aged 15) made a voyage around the world in the USS Columbus which was engaged in first attempts at opening up Japan to the U.S.A. and in establishng full diplomatic relationswith China. After his Navy service he remained at sea in the merchant service and the whaling ships until 1854 (aged 24). From 1853 he worked in various newspaper offices, then employed by Harpers, the New York Evening Post and later contributed to the New York Tribune. N° de ref. del artículo 2037

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