This is a neat old book. It tells about living on a house boat and traveling through colonial America. This “First Edition” book was published in 1910 by L.C. Page & Company. The book measures 5 3/8 inches by 7 ¾ inches and contains xii, 299 pages. The blue cloth covered book has a lovely pictorial on the front. The title is in gilt on the front. The cover shows signs of soiling, mainly to the spine. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The book has pictorial end pages. The top edges of the pages are gilt. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. The name and address of a previous owner is inscribed on the back of the front free end page. A previous owner has left pencil markings on the half title and on the title page. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this old book is good plus to near very good.

Contents:

1. All about Gadabout
2. Our First Run and a Cozy Harbour
3. Land Ho! Our Country’s Birthplace
4. A Run around Jamestown Island
5. Fancies Afloat and Runs Ashore
6. In the Old Churchyard
7. Seeing Where Things Happened
8. Pioneer Village Life
9. Good-bye to Old James Towne
10. A Short Sail and an Old Romance
11. At the Pier Marked “Brandon”
12. Harbour Days and a Foggy Night
13. Old Silver, Old Papers, and an Old Court Gown
14. A One-engine Run and a Forest Tomb
15. Navigating an Unnavigable Stream
16. In Which We Get to Weyanoke
17. Across River to Fleur de Hundred
18. Gadabout Goes to Church
19. Westover, the Home of a Colonial Belle
20. An Old Courtyard and a Sun-dial
21. An Underground Mystery and a Ducking-stool
22. A Bad Start and a View of Berkeley
23. The Right Way to Go to Shirley
24. From Creek Harbour to Colonial Reception
25. An Incongruous Bit of Houseboating
27. The End of the Voyage

Index

Excerpt:
And thus it was that the houseboat Gadabout left her moorings in the outskirts of Old Norfolk, and went sputtering down the Elizabeth to find Hampton Roads and to start upon her cruise up the historic James River.

But to tell the story we must begin before that summer morning. It was this way. We were three: the daughter-wife (who happened to see the magazine article that led to it all), her mother, and her husband. The head of the family, true to the spirit of the age, had achieved a nervous breakdown and was under instructions from his physician to betake himself upon a long, a very long, vacation.

It was while were in perplexed consideration as to where to go and what to do, that the magazine article appeared – devoted to houseboating. It was a most fetching production with a picture that appealed to every overwrought nerve. There was a charming bit of water with trees hanging over; a sky all soft and blue (you knew it was soft and blue just as you knew that the air was soft and cool; just as you knew that a drowsy peace and quiet was brooding over all); and there, in the midst, idly floated a houseboat with a woman idly swinging in a hammock and a man idly fishing from the back porch.

That article opened a new field for our consideration. Landlubbers of the landlubbers though we were, its water-gypsy charm yet sank deep. We thirsted for more. We haunted the libraries until we had exhausted the literature of houseboating…
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