Description

Jarrolds [Published date: 1964]. Hard cover, 160 pp. First Edition. Acceptable in acceptable/poor dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards have bumping and scuffing to edges and corners with a tiny bit of nicking and fraying to the corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Binding tight. Previous seller's price and "S.H." written in blue in on top corner of front free end paper. Original bookseller's stamp affixed upside down to bottom of front paste-down. Otherwise pages are lightly ages but unmarked. Dust jacket is a bit of a mess with a 3" triangular chip missing from the entire top edge of the jacket front and back and the jacket is almost completely split along the front edge of the spine. Jacket has several other smaller chips and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate overall rubbing and scuffing to jacket as well. What remains is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes several nice black and white photos. [From front jacket flap] Where is high life to be found these days? Not on land, apart from the castle or penthouse of the very wealthy. It can only be found at sea on an ocean liner. That is what this book is about - High Life - as presented to ordinary folk in the course of a sea cruise. This is not a cookery book but on a long voyage you will find that the cuisine is one of the most striking features and the author has dealt very thoroughly with this particular aspect. You will also learn a great deal about wine and even if you are a teetotaller the temptation to taste and try will be overwhelming. Included in the price of your ticket is unlimited fun in the shape of games, deck sport, dancing, cocktail parties, entertainment, cinema, Bingo, library - and, above all, service which the top hotels can barely match, friendly service to cater for your every wish. This is not only an introduction to high life at sea, but also a guide to enthusiastic amateur cooks on how to translate some of this luxury into their own homes; a guide to simple everyday table wines which will suit a small budget; and some ideas for a party.