THE CRUISE OF THE KATE

AUTHOR - Empson Edward Middleton

PUBLICATION - Rupert Hart-Davis London 1953

CONDITION - No. 23 in the Mariners Library. Good condition, bookplate, age discolouration and occasional foxing throughout, binding tight. Dustwrapper has bumping and rubbing top and bottom of spine. Minimal chipping top and bottom of spine.

PRICE - $24

DESCRIPTION - This is a day-to-day account of a single-handed voyage, in 1869, round England, undertaken by a man who had little previous knowledge of small-boat sailing but needed to distract his mind after translating into rhymed verse the first two books of the Aeneid. Middleton chose to make the voyage as it was as difficult an enterprise as he could think of. It is notable today due to the small size of the vessel, and the fact that he visited under very difficult conditions many of the harbours and anchorages that we use today, and many others that we take care to avoid. He sailed from the Thames, South about, crossing to Ireland, thence to the Clyde, to Bowline, by canal to Grangemouth, and down the East Coast to the Thames.

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