Cast Away in the Cold: An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures
by: Hayes, Dr. Isaac

Hardcover. New York, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Orange covers with black stamped decorations and gilt panel on spine. Gutter cracked throughout. Rear hinge starting. Captain John Hardy, Retired, a weather-beaten, somewhat eccentric old sea dog of 59 recounts the exciting, sometimes amusing tale of his running away from home at eighteen to become a sailor/mate on a ship bound for the Arctic seas to hunt seals to harvest their valuable pelts.