Walter Runciman went to sea as a boy in sailing ships and became a great shipowner. These fireside tales draw on his own voyages: running through torpedoes and ice, fair trade and foul play, smugglers working from Gibraltar, a pasha before Plevna, and a Russian port in the 1860s.
Salty, matter-of-fact yarns from the last days of sail. Download the free EPUB.