THE EPIC OF THE WANDERING SAILOR. [Author SIGNED copy.]
by WELLS, ALBERT GEORGE:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0861162536
- ISBN 13
- 9780861162536
- Seller
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About This Item
Book is entirely in comic verse aimed at being pure escapism.It relates the adventures of three main characters in search of treasure; a sailor,his parrot and a monk.The parrot,who has a wooden leg,actually speaks and indeed was quite a personality,being able to do impressions and tell jokes.The story starts with the sailor being shipwrecked,then shanghied by a 'press-gang'.On route to China the ship is blown off course.Arriving in Carolina the sailor meets the monk who tells of a hidden treasure.In their search for the treasure they encounter Mexican bandits. Overcoming the situation they find the treasure and start their journey back.
Travelling by raft down a river they are captured by cannibals but escape,overcome rapids and waterfall and board a ship whose captain must first call at the Antarctic to rescue some explorers.
They encounter packed ice,are rescued by the explorers,face dangers in the form of a polar bear,Eskimos and wolves,meet a Mountie and help him catch his man,go through an episode with a bald eagle,the parrot is kidnapped and rescued with the help of a professor in a flying balloon; they are involved with Indians and gangsters, capture the elusive Loch Ness monster,rescue the monk from the clutches of a maniac and eventually all ends well back in England.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE EPIC OF THE WANDERING SAILOR. [Author SIGNED copy.]
- Author
- WELLS, ALBERT GEORGE:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author inscribed/SIGNED,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0861162536
- ISBN 13
- 9780861162536
- Publisher
- UK.BOGNOR REGIS.NEW HORIZON,1982.
- Place of Publication
- Bognor Regis
- This edition first published
- 1982
- Keywords
- q52.NAUTICAL.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author inscribed/SIGNED,1st edn.ISBN 0861162536.Comic Verse.Comic poetry.Sailor_parrot_treasure.Books new,used,signed,rare.
- Bookseller catalogs
- NAUTICAL;
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