Fishing out of Whitby 1932-1939 by a "practical " sailor who skippered her own coble on the North East Coast. First Edition in bespoke (ie.home-made dustwrapper. 8vo xvi.84 pp & illustrated throughout from photographs. Dora Walker was a privately educated fishing boat skipper in Whitby well known for her 2 books "They Labour Mightily and "Freemen of the Sea " She was made Vice President of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society and also President of the Ladies Lifeboat Guild in 1952, The keeper of Whitby Museum in 1954 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1953. She lived for many years at Sandsend and died in 1980 at Sleights aged ninety.