by E.C. Pain
T.F.Pain & Son, Deal and Sandwich, 1929.
175 pages. illustrated from photos and from sketches and etchings by H W Pain and T A N Bent.
very good condition hardback in the original navy blue cloth and still retaining the dust-jacket. jacket a bit grubby with old repaired tear to top corner.
a scarce account of the sailing luggers of Deal and the Kent coast during the latter half of the 19th and first few years of the twentieth centuries, including many accounts of the daring rescues that their crews carried out in the treacherous waters of the Eastern Channel and the Goodwin Sands .
