A Floating Home (Classic Reprint)

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from A Floating Home The authors owe to their readers an explanation of the manner of their collaboration. The owner of the Thames sailing barge, of which the history as a habitation is written in this book, is Mr. Cyril Ionides. 'I' throughout the narrative is Mr. Cyril Ionides, the 'Mate' is Mrs. Cyril Ionides, the children are their children. Yet the other author, Mr. J. B. Atkins, was so closely associated with the events recorded - sharing with Mr. Ionides the counsels and discussions that ended in the purchase of the barge, prosecuting in his company friendships with barge skippers, and studying with him the Essex dialect, which nowhere has more character than in the mouths of Essex seafaring men - that it was not practicable for the book to be written except in collaboration. The authors share, moreover, an intenseadmiration for the Thames sailing barges, to which, so far as they know, justice has never been done in writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.