Port Out Starboard Home

Sheringham, R.A.: 1991 UK, softcover, 100 pages, illustrated.  One of the most interesting is that of Rachel Sheringham, who went out to India with her husband and two small children by steamship from Liverpool in 1901. Rachel’s second husband, Arthur, was a retired Colonel in the British Army, who had formerly been stationed at Poona, a few hundred miles inland from Bombay. The Sheringhams originated in Fakenham, Norfolk, and their return to Poona at the start of the twentieth century was for pleasure and to revisit old friends, rather than work. The journey itself, going via the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, is a fascinating account of how a British family transported its whole way of life to the Indian sub-continent, even including a pack of hounds so they could indulge in their passion for hunting once settled in their new home! ISBN 0951822802 With smal marks of use. In good condition