This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...being supported on a trestle or crutch made fast near the steam-windlass. We could, of course, have left the mast at Rouen, to be picked up on our way back; but its absence would have altered slightly the trim of the vessel, and it was desirable to keep her as far as possible on an even keel. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...being supported on a trestle or crutch made fast near the steam-windlass. We could, of course, have left the mast at Rouen, to be picked up on our way back; but its absence would have altered slightly the trim of the vessel, and it was desirable to keep her as far as possible on an even keel. Accordingly we stretched the awning over the mast, which acted like a ridgepole, and so allowed the rain, of which we had plenty at times, to run readily away. The arrangement had the additional advantage of occasionally furnishing Berengaria, who was solicitous about her complexion, with a plentiful supply of soft water. Although we had already spent nearly three weeks in France, sojourning at Havre, Honfleur, Tancarville, Caudebec, and Duclair, sometimes at anchor, or at other times alongside quays or wharves, going ashore without let or hindrance, we had hitherto not had the honour of a visit from any representative of the Republic's Customs Service. But at Rouen departmental activity is much more in evidence. Indeed, if it has a fault, it may be said to err on the side of over-elaboration, and the skipper was kept pretty busy at times in following, with a mop, the occasional perambulations of the gentry connected with the Service Maritime des Douanes, who, for no other reason apparently than to pass the time, would leave their dirty footmarks on his spotless decks. The obliging courtier marittme, on his first visit, had furnished us with a manifest enumerating the things which, if we had them on board, should be declared. It was a formidable list of upwards of a hundred articles, but with the experience of a practised hand the clerk filled up the document for us in less than a couple of minutes. As he folded it he informed us that before we left...
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1913. Macmillan. Hard Cover. Book-Good, gilt titles on front board & spine, gilt decoration on front board, red boards, spine sunned. 8.5x5.5. 490pp. Frontis, some colour maps, many b/w illus by Olive Branson & b/w photos. Ex-libris.
Add this copy of The Seine From Havre to Paris to cart. $37.13, good condition, Sold by Cambridge Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cambridge, Gloucestershire, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1913 by Macmillan.
