Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads

by Arthur Henry Patterson

Length
6h 7m
Chapters
16
Language
English
Genre
Nature

"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland. I acquired this boat from His Majesty's Custom House at Great Yarmouth for the princely sum of £2.00. The boat was one of the few items salvaged after her parent ship, the coal-ketch "Crocus", had foundered somewhere off Haisboro' on the Norfolk coast. Then after getting this leaky old tub up to my moorings at Breydon, I set about the innumerable tasks to get "The Walrus" (as I named her) refurbished and back to some sort of sea (or Broads) worthy condition. Once the work was completed and the "Walrus" was launched, then this (audio) story really begins ..." …

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