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The Skipper's Daughter (Paperback) Price: R328
Discovery Miles 3 280

The Skipper's Daughter (Paperback)

Nancy Richards

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Discovery Miles 3 280

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Nancy Brooks was sixteen when she went to sea with her father. Despite a gypsy fortune-teller’s warning to her mother, on 2 July 1938, she signed up as Captain’s Clerk for a shilling a week on the SS Nailsea Manor.

Leaving from Birkenhead in Liverpool, the ship was to circumnavigate the world. The log Nancy Fancy Pants, as she became known, types during the voyage tells tales of exotic ports, fascinating people and places, and the rope-and-grease routine of a sailor. On board, she masters navigation, the Morse code as well as all the sea knots, and she flies high on the swing the crew rig up for her. On land, she learns even more, but when a squall takes its toll one stormy night in Australia, she is unprepared for the lessons death brings. Between the neatly typed lines of her extraordinary record, she captures her own journey, of self-discovery, and love.

The Skipper’s Daughter interweaves the log with Nancy’s recollections and is lovingly shared with us by her daughter, Nancy Richards.

General

Imprint: Karavan Press
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: July 2021
Authors: Nancy Richards
Dimensions: 230 x 145 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-620-93588-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > Expeditions
Books > Biography > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > Expeditions
LSN: 0-620-93588-X
Barcode: 9780620935883

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