The Vintage 1955 "This Was Seafaring" book is a first edition hardcover publication that offers a nostalgic look at 30 years of sailing and boat photos.

THIS WAS SEAFARING

by

RALPH W. ANDREWS

Acknowledged "shutterbug" from boyhood, Harry Kirwin escaped from the welter of New York to the rolling seas and South American newspapers. At 32 he arrived in Seattle broke, and took at once to the waterfront and seagoing boats. Here is 30 years of evidence that he overlooked little.

Ralph Andrews covers the Kirwin story and writes life into the almost forgotten past in the same manner which won for his "This was Logging" the Seattle Historical Society award. In "This Was Seafaring" the reader will find drama, humor, intense interest and always nostalgia in the account of the "bone ship" Ryo Yei Maru, the attempted rescue and subsequent tragedies on the Turksib in the Aleutians, the submarine wedding, "the great salvage fiasco," Coast Guard and Navy exploits, and many more.

"I think there never has been a man with a camera like Harry Kirwin. I have covered assignments with him from the Gulf of Mexico to Sitka, in high seas and calm, concerned with live bodies and dead ones, and I have always been impressed with his fearless nature and his inborn impulse to beat against the element which has always challenged man— the sea. You may well lay to it, there'll never be another book like 'This Was Seafaring.'"

NARD JONES, Pacific Northwest novelist, former editor Pacific Motor Boat, now chief editorial writer Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Set in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, this nautical picture book captures the essence of seafaring adventures with its vintage charm. It is a must-have for those with an interest in boating and maritime history.