A Steady Trade is the story of a childhood in Whales and a boyhood on the arduous sail-in-trade of Northern Europe before World War II. It is a charming, nostalgic reminiscence of a lost world, a childhood in a Welsh countryside still in the 19th century, of a time when chantey-singing sailors fought the weather to deliver bricks, coal, even animals around the world, and of a young boy who wanted to experience it all.
- ISBN10 0586060561
- ISBN13 9780586060568
- Publish Date 12 July 1984 (first published 1 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Triad Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English