The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

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Author: Bullen, Frank Thomas,1857-1915
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Language: English
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The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

$17.92 $8.96

The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

$17.92 $8.96
Author: Bullen, Frank Thomas,1857-1915
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work the continuous story of the actual experiences of his first four years at sea. In graphic and picturesque phrases he has sketched the events of voyages to the West Indies, to Bombay and the Coromandel coast, to Melbourne and Rangoon. Nothing could be of more absorbing interest than this wonderfully vivid account of foks'l humanity and the adventures and strange sights and experiences attendant upon deep-sea voyages. It is easy to see in this book an English companion to our own "Two Years before the Mast." "It is immensethere is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the business of whale-fishing, and at the same time given such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you most heartily. It's a new world that you've opened the door to." Notwithstanding the oft-reiterated statement that the days of sea romance are over, it may well be doubted whether any period of our literary history has been more prolific in books dealing with that subject than the last twenty-five years. Nor does the output show any signs of lessening, while the quality of the work done is certainly not deteriorating. Writers like Kipling, Cutcliffe Hyne, Joseph Conrad, and Clark Russell, each in his own style, have presented us with a series of sea-pictures that need not fear comparison with any nautical writers' work of any day, although they deal almost exclusively with the generally considered unromantic merchant service. Having admitted this, the question perforce follows, "Who, then, are you, that presumes to compete with these master magicians?" ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 36657
Author: Bullen, Frank Thomas
Release Date: Jul 8, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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