by Robert Buchanan
London, Chapman & Hall, 1871.
1st edition. 2 volumes. ppxiii 282, vii 277. advert leaf.
woodburytype photographic frontispieces. title-page vignettes.
nice bright condition hardbacks in the original green cloth bindings, lettered in gilt to the spines.
The "Tern" was a 7-ton yacht of around 30' , believed by the author to have been the smallest craft of its kind to have ventured round Ardnamurchan and out to the Outer Hebrides.
There is also an account of cruising on the Firth of Lorne in an earlier 9-ton yacht "Ocean Queen", described by the author as "the crankest vessel ever built by the hand of man, and was speedily known by the nickname of the 'Coffin'".
