Nauticalia

Meet the most resourceful creatures afloat (after sailors themselves!) in Val Lewis' (our chairman's wife) book of true stories of intrepid ships' cats. Cats that sailed with lone sailors, or braved the Antarctic with Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott. Cats caught in naval warfare, shipwrecked or bewitched. Swimming and fishing cats. Cats that shared history - like the book's cover cat, shown being stopped by Winston Churchill from abandoning ship to go aboard President Roosevelt's cruiser Augusta, when the two leaders met for a momentous conference at sea. Black-and-white illustrations, 208 pages.