Camping on the Wye

Author(s): S. K. Baker

Travel - Narratives

During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books. The result is an entirely charming, funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger and possibly naughtier. Baker records their evenings in the pub, their encounters with girls, (both ashore and afloat), nude swimming and culinary disasters, while recording lovingly the landscape and the boats on which they sailed. The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe, the son of one of Baker's fellow students (GG in the text), to whom it was gifted.

20.00 NZD

Stock: 0


Add to Wishlist


Product Information

Four Victorian students and their adventures in a skiff on the River Wye

S. K. Baker was a student at University College, London in the late 1880s but little is known of his later life. Michael Goffe, the owner of the books, is a descendant of one of S.K. Baker's fellow travellers (GG in the book).

General Fields

  • : 9781472945181
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : June 2017
  • : 208mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : S. K. Baker
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 914.2950481
  • : 160
  • : More than 75 facsimile illustrations