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Buy this book on-line WELLS, ALBERT GEORGE: : THE EPIC OF THE WANDERING SAILOR. [Author SIGNED copy.]UK.BOGNOR REGIS.NEW HORIZON,1982. ISBN 0861162536.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author inscribed+ SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj but inscribed by author: "Best Wishes Albert George Wells" to ffe.Bright,clean,glossy, laminated b/w illustrated upper
wrap,b/w publisher's advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to ant pages' corners. Bright,clean immaculate plain red rexine- type bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,
apart from author's inscrptn+signature, plain yellow eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED, 1st edn,1-79pp includes half-title+title pages and comprises 683 comic verses.
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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