Master of the moving sea
Subtitle: the life of Captain Peter John Riber Mathieson, from his anecdotes, manuscripts, notes, stories, and detailed records
By: [compiled] by Gladys M.O. Gowlland ; edited by J. Ferrell Colton and Antoinette G. Smith ; drawings by Barton A. Wright.,
Contributors: Gowlland, Gladys Mary Orford.; Colton, J. Ferrell.; Smith, Antoinette G.; Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990, donor.
Publisher: J.F. Coulton
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Flagstaff
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Mathieson, Peter John Riber, 1871-1954.; Seafaring life.; Ship captains -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Peter J.R. Mathieson
Notes: Includes index.
"The epic of the ship's boy of the Norwegian wooden barque Norma in 1885 who, wandering the world in craft of sail and steam through peace and war, rose to command fourteen vessels under the flags of five nations including the clipper Antiope, the lofty Carrabin, the mighty Moshulu, and, finally, in 1944, the United States steamer Joseph E. Wing."
Title on dust jacket: Master of the moving sea : Peter J.R. Mathieson.