[Z] AN ENTERTAINING JOURNAL FOR A TRIP UP THE THAMES BY HENRY MARC BRUNEL AND FRIENDS IN 1885

AN ENTERTAINING JOURNAL FOR A TRIP UP THE THAMES BY HENRY MARC BRUNEL AND FRIENDS IN 1885

comprising 274 pages, lithographs throughout, including several illustrations, title with printed monogram 'HMB' for the author, cream cloth, flat spine with the date '1885' -- 7 x 4¾in. (17.8 x 11.2cm.)

Henry Marc Brunel.

An amusing account by engineer Henry Marc Brunel (1842-1903), second son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, describing a series of boating trips on the River Thames during 1885. The author's travelling companions included fellow engineers E. M. Cruttwell and John Wolfe-Barry, who co-designed Blackfriars’s Bridge. The text provides an entertaining account of the trials and tribulations of boating, including problems with locks and weirs, descriptions of the passing landscape, the Henley Regatta (including difficulties of organising a photograph by William Taunt), less successful regattas at Kingston and Molesey - the Sunday after each Regatta was devoted to forgetting its joys - and information on eating establishments.

Condition Report

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