New York: Modern Promotions, (1979).
Price: $20.00
Softcover. Reprint. 192pp. 8" x 11". Paperback. Illustrated by Dick Cole. Pages age-toned, cover creased, old price sticker partially removed, very good. This edition has a reader's guide in the margins giving explanations to the some of the vocabulary used in the book not as familiar to readers today. Backword had brief biography of Kipling, and a short history of sailing through the ages. The boys’ classic of a pampered, rich lad who accidentally falls in with a crusty fishing crew and has some sense knocked into him. Basis for the excellent Victor Fleming film featuring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the Portuguese fisherman.
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