A New Oarsman's Guide
To the Rivers and Canals of Great Britain and Ireland. Cruising Club Manual.
George Philip & Son, 1896.
First edition. 12mo. Original cream cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, blind stamped rope design on the upper cover. All edges red. Fold out map in the rear pocket. A very good copy, spine tanned and cream cloth inevitably dusty. Book plate on the front pastedown.
Prothero was rear commodore of The Cruising Club from 1896 to 1900 and is described by Sir Arthur Underhill, the Club's founder, as 'a canoeist and oarsman of renown who has paddled or rowed over most of the rivers of Europe and Britain'. Prothero wrote that "Our object is to stimulate the taste for a most delightful mode of travelling, by making oarsman aware of the large possibilities that exist even in these little islands of ours." [Preface]
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