Mate of the Caprice

ISBN-13: 9780850364446 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 168 str.

Gordon Brown

Opis

In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo - wheat and barley, coal, gun powder, cement and gravel. These remarkable craft were worked by a crew of two - skipper and mate. Here, the shipmate tells his story.