Tramps and Ladies

My Early Years in Steamers 

by Sir James Bisset

Angus and Robertson, 1959 [First Edition], colour frontispiece, black and white plates, illustrated end-papers (maps), hardcover, dust-jacket

Very good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, chipping, and creasing, small tears and small parts missing at top, (see photographs)

"Nothing to do but navigate, and home every three months; no more back-breaking "pully-hauly", sweltering in the doldrums; no more taking in or making sail aloft in a howling hurricane or wading up to the armpits on decks flooded with icy seas; and no more starvation on the bare "whack" of putrid pork and hard biscuits: so James Bisset thought in 1905 when, at 21, he made ready for his first job in steamships and bade farewell to sail."