A Man of Tall Ships & Small Wooden Boats by C. E. (Ned) Holland

A Man of Tall Ships & Small Wooden Boats

by C. E. (Ned) Holland

Printed by Kookaburra Press, c1980s, black and white photographs, staple-bound paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“Axel Alfred Stenross was born on September 23^rd, 1895 in the village of Finby, in the Republic of Finland, the youngest of the family of eight children.  We know little of Axel’s life in his homeland except a few brief factors, that as a youth he worked as an apprentice in his father’s (Johan Nicholas Stenroos) boat building yard, building wooden boats...”