Skipper from Leith: The History of Robert Barton of Over Barnton

by W. Stanford Reid

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

336 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[Gary Barton · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting but dry scholarly account of a Scottish merchant, seaman, part-time privateer, trader and financier.