The Nautilus Library no. 10: Sea Escapes and Adventures by "Taffrail" - Commander Taprell Dorling, D.S.O., R.N.[retd.]
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The 'Nautilus Library' begun in the 1920s, and built up to more than thirty volumes. A few were given slightly different titles but most were classic nautical works issued in a pocket sized edition by Philip Allan, who owned the copyright to many of the original editions.

SEA ESCAPES AND ADVENTURES

by " Taffrail "
[Commander Taprell Dorling, D.S.O., R.N.[retd.]

First published August 1927 by PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD, London
Reprinted November 1927
Second edition NAUTILUS LIBRARY No. 10 1929 by PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD

 

Blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean with corners sharp - nautilus bright. A few isolated fox marks for the first few pages but remainder are clean and tidy. Gift inscription to previous owner on front free end paper. Condition VERY GOOD PLUS. A GOOD MINUS condition dust wrapper; sunned, torn, taped and with a little loss - Click here for image of jacket.

Another copy: Similar condition but no inscriptions; No dust wrapper, but remains included (split vertically through spine).
Price £9.00 plus postage

256 pages. Volumes are 115 mm. wide; 175 tall and about 18 mm. thick. Weight unwrapped approximately 220 grams.

Jacket blurb

A very remarkable collection, beginning with a true and gruesome story of cannibalism in 1765 and ending with the first attempt to fly the Atlantic in 1919.

  

A full-size facsimile wrapper which is available free on request with purchase.Number 10


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The Nautilus Library No. 10: Sea Escapes and Adventures by "Taffrail": Dust wrapper sunned, torn, taped and with a little loss. Click this image to see a larger image!

The Nautilus Library No. 10: Sea Escapes and Adventures by TAFFREAIL: Blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean with corners sharp, very little serious wear - nautilus bright. Place cursor over image of book's title at the righto see frontboard.

Sea Escapes and Adventures by TAFFRAIL: A few isolated fox marks for the first few pages but remainder are clean and tidy. Gift inscription to previous owner on front free end paper. Condition VERY GOOD PLUS. Remove cursor to revert to image of book’s title page superimposed on front board.
CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • THE SURVIVORS OF THE "PEGGY." 1765
  • THE ESCAPE OF THE SLOOP "GUARDIAN." 1789-1790
  • THE "JUNO" AT TOULON. 1794
  • THE WRECK OF THE "PHILLIS" TRANSPORT. 1795
  • THE PRESERVATION OF THE "WATER LILY." 1824
  • THE "VICTORY" IN THE ARCTIC. 1829-1833
  • THE STORY OF THE "SARAH SANDS." 1857
  • THE STORY OF THE .WHALESHIP "DIANA." 1866-1867
  • THE TRAGEDY OF THE "MIGNONETTE." 1884
  • THE ESCAPE OF THE "CALLIOPE." 1889
  • THE ESCAPE OF THE "TERRA NOVA." 1910
  • THE ESCAPE OF THE "ORTEGA." 1914
  • SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON AND THE "ENDURANCE." 1914-1916
  • THE ATLANTIC BY AEROPLANE. 1919

 

 

 

 

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