The Log of a Limejuicer 1933 James P. Barker SIGNED Autobiography/memoir of British Master Mariner ~ square rig captain

Title: The Log of a Limejuicer: The experiences under sail of James P. Barker Master Mariner as told to Roland Barker

Author: James P. Barker / as told to Roland Barker

Description: Signed by Barker on half-title page. Limited hand-numbered edition of 301 copies, this being number 72. Beveled boards in ivory cloth, stamped in green and gilt, ship pictorial on front cover. Light general soiling to cloth. ''Wood-panel'' endpapers. Internally clean. Frontispiece portrait and 12 other illustrations on plates, many from photographs. Glossary. pp. xiv, 251.

The nautical memoir of sea-captain and master mariner James Platt Barker (1875-1946), a British deep water sailor, who in forty-four years at sea had rounded Cape Horn forty-one times. Barker first went to sea as an apprentice in the summer of 1889 and his biography recounts many years of adventures and experiences in the late days of square rig sailing ships. Includes a few pages describing his encounters with, and the demise of, the Peter Iredale, a ship which crashed on the Oregon coast in 1906. [British mariners, all seas over, were called 'Limejuicers,' often shortened to 'Limey,' for their use of citruses as an antidote to scurvy.] Barker's forty-one Cape Horn voyages were with the following vessels: the barque Ravenswood (1889-1894), barque Lurlei (1894-1897), ship Dovenby Hall (1897-1902), ship British Isles (1903-1909), and ship Tamar (1919).

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Huntington Press
Place: New York
Year: 1933

Keywords: British, mariner, memoir, autobiography, biography, nautical, maritime, mariner, sailing, Peter Iredale, square rig, square rigged, ship captain, Lime-juicer,