About this title: On Blue Water gives an account of a voyage from Genoa to Buenos Aires in the Galileo, a steamer carrying emigrants - this and nothing more. The narrative begins at the wharf at Genoa, and ends when the tug leaves the ship's side in the harbor of Montevideo. The ship does not even touch at Gibraltar. The interest in the story, and it is not small, lies entirely in the study of the types of humanity on board. The writer's observant eye has singled out, his lively imagination has characterized, and his ready pen as described at least twenty different groups and characters taken from both ends of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1897
Description: Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Good Minus Hardcover w/some board wear, pages/edges age toning/soiling. Text free of notes, binding has some shaken signatures. Spine has several tears, pieces of fabric torn off. Binding is cracked at title page and inside covers/hinges. No Dust Jacket, blue boards with gold lettering and decoration. Back board has some water spots, some white spots. Foxing of pages. Confirmation on all Domestic Orders! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: INTL LAW & TAXATION PUBL
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781410104557ISBN:1410104559
Description: New. On Blue Water gives an account of a voyage from Genoa to Buenos Aires in the Galileo, a steamer carrying emigrants-this and nothing more. The narrative begins at the wharf at Genoa, and ends when the tug leaves the ship's side in the harbor of Mont... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam,, NY:
Date Published: 1897
Description: Very Good. Illustrated. Translated by Jacob B. Brown. First edition thus. Ex-library copy with typical markings, spine slant, else very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations.; 387 pages. read more
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