HORNELL, JAMES — Water Transport Origins and Early Evolution

Cambridge, England: University Press, 1946. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations and Photographs; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The rear foredge of the book cover has a strip of toning / darkening . The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page (C. H. Tilbury) . The dust jacket is in parts. "As a zoologist Hornell published a number of papers on marine organisms working most notably with his father in law Joseph Sinel in Jersey, and in 1900 traveled to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to report on the pearl fisheries. Staying there for six years, Hornell published a number of papers on the pearling industry. While there he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society for his work on marine worms. After working for several more years in India, organizing the fisheries of Madras, he retired, and thus began his next career as an ethnographer of seafarming and maritime life. He traveled extensively around the Indian Ocean world and east Asia, making records of indigenous watercraft, sailing on Junks and Sampans, and as a member of an expedition to the south seas made many records of the watercraft of Polynesia. Further travels brought encounters with watercraft of northern India, the Mediterranean, the Nile, Uganda, Madagascar, Iraq, and northern Europe. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Poor dust jacket .