Captain Fraser's Voyages, 1865-1892

217 pp. "The notebooks from which this book evolved were written up by him [Thomas Garry Fraser] in his sixties and recall in vivid detail the events of twenty-five voyages in fast clippers, carrying varied cargoes all over the world. Fraser's accounts of far-off places and shipboard life reveal a measure of humour and real descriptive skill: he had a talent for narration, and the solid Victorian principles which coloured his outlook on events and people invest his comments with interest and charm."