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| | Bibliotreks: Brassey's Last Voyage (BT000019) |
 | | FIRST EDITION, with a presentation inscription by Lord Brassey to J. Hichens "In Memoriam." The Last Voyage is a compilation of notes, journals, articles and letters edited by M. Broome, assistant to Lady (then Mrs.) Brassey, and published posthumously. |
 | | Their last such voyage began in November 1886 and took them from Portsmouth, England, through the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, India, Burma, around Australia and back, where Lady Brassey died of malarial fever after leaving Port Darwin and was buried at sea. |
 | | Lord Thomas Brassey (1836-1918), Lady Brassey's husband, the first Earl Brassey and the eldest son of Thomas Brassey the famous British railway builder, was "a recognized authority on English naval affairs. |
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