Marquand, Hilary.

Memoirs of a Victorian Master Mariner. Edited by Eric B. Marquand with an Introduction by Philip Riden.

Cardiff, Merton Priory Press Ltd, 1996. 16 cm x 24 cm. XLVI, 274 pages. With twenty-two black and white plates / photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

The Autobiography of Captain Hilary Marquand (1825 – 1872) a Guernsey-born Master Mariner and shipowner. Marquand went to sea aged 14 as a cabin-boy and by 1849 had command of his own ship. Marquand sailed to the West Indies, South America, Mediteranean, Africa and the Baltic, his ships carrying a variety of cargoes. He recounts numerous exciting episodes which punctuated his career, including storms, shipwrecks and a narrow escape from imprisonment at the hands of the Royal Navy at Gibraltar.
Edited by his great-grandson, Eric Blondel Marquand, with an introduction by Philip Riden, Lecturer in Local History at the University of Wales, Cardiff. (From jacket notes)

Includes for example the following chapters: First to Fourteenth Voyages / Childhood / A Letter from Hilary Marquand to his Wife, 1866 etc.

• Keywords: Autobiographies · Autobiography · maritime adventure · Maritime History · Maritime History – Rare · Memoirs · Nautical · Nautical Books · Naval History · Navy
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898937222
• Inventory Number: 200184AB

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