A Week on the Broads: Four Victorian gents at sail on a Norfolk gaffer in 1889
By S. K. Baker and Michael Goffe
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The result is an entirely charming, funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger and possibly naughtier. Baker records their evenings in the pub, their encounters with girls, (both ashore and afloat), nude swimming and culinary disasters, while recording lovingly the landscape and the boats on which they sailed.
The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe, the son of one of Baker's fellow students, to whom it was gifted.
This is suggested as two separate books although they could be bound up together with a combination title.
S. K. Baker
S. K. Baker was a student at University College, London in the late 1880s but little is known of his later life.
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A Week on the Broads - S. K. Baker
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Preface
My late father, Dr. E. G. L. Goffe of Kingston upon Thames, was the last survivor of a group of friends who met at University College London. In the late 1880s just before and after graduating and going their ways as doctors, civil servants or just young men about town, they undertook a week sailing a gaffer on the Nor folk Broads. Their adventures, documented here, show them doing what young men like, and still like doing, living life to the full, with sports and activities, the pub and plentiful contact with the opposite sex.
As the last survivor of the group, the manuscript volume of this work and its slightly earlier companion, Camping on the Wye were handed down to my father and then on to me, and have been kept ever since as family treasures. Various people, on being shown the two volumes, have suggested that they were worthy of being more widely known, and in particular I must mention and thank my sailing friend Tom Dehn and his wife Lorraine who put me in touch with Bloomsbury Publishing, and Lisa Thomas of that firm, who has guided me in the presentation of the books and overseen their production.
The original volume is leather bound and handwritten in journal form, interspaced with watercolour sketches on