Barbour, Job

Forty-Eight Days Adrift. The Voyage of the "Neptune I I" from Newfoundland to Scotland

London Richard Clay and Sons Ltd. [no date circa 1932], 1st Edition. () xvi,220pp. Very good. Octavo in original blue cloth with yellow lettered spine, frontispiece portrait and 12 plates (11 both sides) from photos. Lengthy signed inscription on front free endpaper to Lord Amulree by the author. Some very minor light foxing to edges, rear top corner dinged else a very good copy scarce in the original edition. O'Dea 2050 (later issue ? London: Simpkin, Marshall, [1932]). The account of the perilous journey of the "Neptune II" owned by Capt. Barbour's family of Newton, bb, Newfoundland. Lord Amulree was chairman of the Newfoundland Royal Commission, 1933 into Newfoundland's debt crisis which led to rescheduling of the debt at a lower interest rate and guranteed by British government and the appointment of a commission in 1934 to govern Newfoundland, that lasted 15 years.

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