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BRASSEY, Mrs. Around The World In The Yacht 'Sunbeam" Our Home on the Ocean For Eleven Months.
New York: Henry Holt, 1879. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth dec. in gilt, bevelled edges, xi, 479pp. With illustrations and a large folding map. A fine copy.
"The Victorian public welcomed Annie Brassey's books with an enthusiasm reserved nowadays for episodes of a soap opera. She was rich, carefree, idyllically happy with a handsome, distinguished husband and bonny children, and spent her life enjoying genial adventures at sea on what seemed like a non-stop holiday."