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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. x + 198 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Slight browning of paper, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 pages of colour and 8 of black and white plates. An account of the rescue work of the lifeboat stations of Britain and Ireland, based on interviews with their crews and families It includes a chapter on the Tarts of Dungeness. By Barry Cockroft (1932-2001), television documentary director and writer, whose work included accounts of Hannah Hauxwell who lived alone on a remote farm in the Yorkshire Dales, and a family of Romany Gypsies living in the York area, who attended the Appleby Horse Fair.