A Sack Of Shakings
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: FEP missing
Long before armchair travel was fashionable, Frank T. Bullen had already lived the stories that other men could only imagine — and A Sack of Shakings is the magnificent result of a life spent at sea. Published in 1901, this collection of essays and sketches draws directly from Bullen's firsthand experience as a merchant mariner, presenting vivid, salt-sprayed vignettes of ocean life, seafaring lore, and the raw, untamed world of the deep. Each piece crackles with authenticity, from the groaning timbers of a working vessel to the capricious moods of the open ocean, rendered with a naturalist's precision and a storyteller's flair. Bullen, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and celebrated author of The Cruise of the Cachalot, brings to this volume the same muscular, immersive prose that made him one of the foremost maritime writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. A Sack of Shakings — the title itself a nautical term for odds and ends collected aboard ship — mirrors its name perfectly: a rich, varied gathering of observations, reflections, and tales that illuminate a world few landlubbers ever witnessed. For readers drawn to the literature of the sea, this rare early edition is an essential and utterly captivating find.
Author: Frank T. Bullen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1901, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: FEP missing
Long before armchair travel was fashionable, Frank T. Bullen had already lived the stories that other men could only imagine — and A Sack of Shakings is the magnificent result of a life spent at sea. Published in 1901, this collection of essays and sketches draws directly from Bullen's firsthand experience as a merchant mariner, presenting vivid, salt-sprayed vignettes of ocean life, seafaring lore, and the raw, untamed world of the deep. Each piece crackles with authenticity, from the groaning timbers of a working vessel to the capricious moods of the open ocean, rendered with a naturalist's precision and a storyteller's flair. Bullen, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and celebrated author of The Cruise of the Cachalot, brings to this volume the same muscular, immersive prose that made him one of the foremost maritime writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. A Sack of Shakings — the title itself a nautical term for odds and ends collected aboard ship — mirrors its name perfectly: a rich, varied gathering of observations, reflections, and tales that illuminate a world few landlubbers ever witnessed. For readers drawn to the literature of the sea, this rare early edition is an essential and utterly captivating find.