Young capt william (4 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good -. Book.

PAPERBACK. Etat : VG.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1964). (1963) 1964 1st UK edition. Large 8vo (160 x 235mm). Ppxii,415. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in red. Very good in chipped price-clipped dust-wrapper. A complete monograph on the sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays: authoritative, thoroughly researched and well-illustrated. Chapters include: Documented attacks by sharks on men, mostly on the East Coast of North America; Attacks on people on the West Coast of North America and elsewhere; Captain William Young, from his youth to the capture of his last shark; Fishing of sharks for sport, official records of catches in this field; Attempted methods of preventing shark attacks, precautions advised, official warnings; Sharks and their allies in mythology, legend, folklore, and crime; Sharks and their allies as food for man, world-wide report on Selachian cuisine; Commercial shark fishing, products other than food obtained from sharks; The origin of the Selachians and thus of the sharks, and how they are today; Sharks and their relatives, the Batoids (skates and rays), the Chimaeras, and the 'Links'; Descriptions of several species, including the Great White Shark, and the Whale Shark; Descriptions of more species, including the Lake and River Sharks, a list of the more common Selachians in North America. Appendix: Selachian cookery. .…

2pp., 4to. Printed on the same side of one piece of shiny art paper, folded to make a bifolium. Aged and stained, with wear and slight loss to extremities. Photograph of Russell beneath title, alongside 'Sonnet | To W. Clark Russell', reprinted 'From "English Sea Pictures." By Julia D. Young, Author of "Barham Beach, the President's Poem." - New York.' The author laments that '[i]n this country, it is not the fashion to ennoble those who really do something for their time and generation', such as Russell, whose 'stupendous output' consists of 'fifty-seven books everyone [sic] of them good'. The article concludes: 'Of a surety is such a hero a national asset, and the more we think of the subject, the greater is our admiration for that skipper of Calcutta, who first called our attention to the fact. May the fates be kinder to the stricken writer, and may he long be spared to wield his able pen. The nation can better spare many more-advertised and gaudily-decorated patriots, than can it Mr. W. Clark Russell - a citizen of the universal world.' No other copy of this offprint traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.…