First edition. viii, 168pp, copiously illustrated in black and white. Bright blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 4to. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original laminated, illustrated dust wrapper, bumped on edges with a few short nicks on edges, a little shelf worn.
From the back of the book: "Dick Durham and the crew of the 26 foot cutter Almita cruise the lower reaches of the Thames and the coasts of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Kent, revelling by the day m tje desolute beauty of these historic waters and by night in the warm embrace of the taverns ashore".
