This hardback book with dust jacket and 337 pages was written by Alex A Hurst and published in 1992. Contains 44 black and white illustrations.
This book comprises two volumes - DOWN TO THE SEA, which concerns the author's days at sea in both sail and steam, and IN DURANCE VILE, which relates his experiences, and those of his colleagues, i a German raier, in a couple of prison ships and then as a prisoner-of-war in Japan, with much additional anecdote and comment in both volumes.