Nautical

Featuring the Journal of Sarah Jane Girdler Kept Aboard the Clipper Ship ‘Robert H. Dixey’ from America to Russia and Europe January 1857 – December 1858, frontispiece and b&w illustrations from portraits, line-drawings and reproductions of contemporary documents, deck-plan and rigging plan of the ship, line-drawn maps, genealogical tables, map on endpapers showing this voyage, notes, bibliography & index, 224 pp, cream cloth in d/w, in very good condition, Black Belt Press (Montgomery, Alabama) 1997

23.5 x 18.1 cm, 760g, ISBN 1 88132 049 9

‘Antebellum’ meaning ‘before the American Civil War’.  See the description from the dustwrapper flap and the short reviews from the rear of the dustwrapper.

I am a little mystified as to the ‘illustrated glossary’ mentioned in the dustwrapper blurb, as there is no glossary mentioned in the book’s contents list.  The author may be referring to the book’s ‘epilogue’, which consists of short biographies, illustrated with portraits, of persons mentioned in Sarah Girdler’s Journal.

The publisher’s website has a bewildering selection of books available (including ‘Elvis Is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself’), but does not mention this book, so I assume the book is now out of print.