Round The World With An Empress – here is a wonderful and interesting book in green cloth boards with embossed gold gilt title and illustration on the front. Inside it says printed for private circulation 1932-33. It is autographed by the author. On the gift note of original insertion as a Christmas gift it reads among other things 1933 by L.M. Hawkins. Printed by Bedford The Sydney Press Limited with rough notes for a log by L.M. Hawkins. The acknowledgements reads: “These notes are reprinted, not because I like them or have any particular desire that anyone should read them, but for the opportunity that their distribution will afford me to renew a remembrance, however slight, with-here and there-a fellow-adventurer. Their brevity makes them little more than an index-and incomplete at that-to the volume that might have been; but, brief as they are, they were composed in that spirit of pain and tribulation that accompanied exertion of any sort on board the ‘Empress of Britain.’ Some of the signs of peevishness have been removed and some of the results of extraneous poetic aspiration have been added, but otherwise the notes are printed very much as they appeared at intervals in ‘The Bedfordshire Times.’ Mr. Clive Morris, very kindly, has allowed me to make (and to publish) a selection from his delightful sketches of some of ourselves as at least one other sees us: and for the other decorations I am indebted to Mr. C. Walter Hodges – and to the Canadian Pacific who provided the material for his inspiration.” The Dedication reads: “In the circumstances described, this booklet might have been offered – and even with propriety burnt- at the shrine of that member of the ‘perpetual priesthood’ whose example of industry and concentration confounded all who in the course of the cruise discovered neither time nor inclination to do the many things that accordingly were left undone. For all that, the occasion is taken to dedicate it instead-and without permission-to the gallant seaman who by the exercise of a comparable virtue brought us safely from Southampton to Southampton on his last world cruise- Commander R.G. Latta.” His picture appears in sketch on the next page. This is a wonderful detailed tale of an early ocean voyage. This book measures 8 3/8”l x 5 5/8”w. It has 107 pages. I suspect that this is a rare and limited edition and a super book for the collector of nautical works and high seas adventure. Striving For ExcellenceIt isn’t brilliance or just getting the breaks,It is consistent attention to & honest respect for the Customer. Blue Dolphin Antiques164 Atlantic HwyNorthport, Maine 04849# 207-338-3860 |
