London, Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. 1889. 1st Edition. 213pp. Maps and sketch illutrations. Very good black cloth covers with silver titles, bevilled edges. Top edge gilt. Internally fine.
Signed in ink by the author on the front pastedown. Also inscribed to Robin Cradock on the front pastedown. With embossed library stamp of Christopher Cradock.
Very scarce.
The author's hunting exploits in China Korea, Penang and Japan.
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock KCVO CB SGM (2 July 1862 – 1 November 1914) was an English senior officer of the Royal Navy. He earned a reputation for great gallantry.
Appointed to the royal yacht, he was close to the British royal family. Prior to the First World War, his combat service during the Mahdist War and the Boxer Rebellion was all ashore. Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station before the war, his mission was to protect Allied merchant shipping by hunting down German commerce raiders.
Late in 1914 he was tasked to search for and destroy the East Asia Squadron of the Imperial German Navy as it headed home around the tip of South America. Believing that he had no choice but to engage the squadron in accordance with his orders, despite his numerical and tactical inferiority, he was killed during the Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile in November when the German ships sank his flagship. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
