by Arthur Ransome
Jonathan Cape, 1927.
small format hardback. 224 pages.
'"Traveller's Library" edition - the second printing of the work.
good clean condition in the original binding. school library stamp to end-papers and one other page, and label to front paste-down.
classic tale of Baltic cruising in the immediate post-world war one years, recounting a voyage from Riga to Helsingfors in the 9-metre centreboard ketch 'Racundra'.