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Born in the Breezes
Relates the life of Joshua Slocum, who spent most of his life at sea and became the first person to sail around the world alone.
The Seafaring Life
The Seafaring Life is not for everyone, but for those who live the life there is no substitute! "The Seafaring Life" is Bob’s third book of insights into what the cruising lifestyle is all about. What makes people get aboard a boat about the same size as a jail cell and sail out onto the most inhospitable place on Earth, the Ocean! Where there are things that want to eat you and you are surrounded by water you can’t drink! The Seafaring Life joins "The Sailing Life" and "Starboard Attitude” as the third collection of Bob’s insight into the lifestyle he has lived for over 40 years!
The Narrative of William Spavens
Part of a series of naval and sea-life memoirs, this title offers an alternative to the usual top-down history, and has much to say on the topic of press gangs. It includes an eyewitness account of Hawke's great victory in Quiberon Bay in 1759.
Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life by an Old Quarter Master
Two fascinating works by John Bechervaise, from 1839 and 1847, describing his thirty-six years of seafaring life from 1803.
Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life Light he the ashes of the dead, And hallowed be the turf that pillows the head of a seaman. September 21st, the brig left Boston for Newfoundland, and thus reader commences my seafaring career. My being allowed to sit at the same table with the master, and the many indul gences he gave me, while it prevented me from feeling so awkward as I should have done had I been placed with the crew, still it in no wise tended to my comfort; for the other lads jealous of the preference shewn me, exerted all their little powers to make me uncomfortable; besides the very great injury it did me in after years, for never having been a regular apprentice, and...
Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860
Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life.
Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...Adam's wife had been perfectly blind since the birth of her son, who was then twenty-two years old: it was really pleasing to see the kind attention paid to her, not only by her husband, but by all the little community, who, sensible of her privations, endeavoured by the tenderest care to make her forget some of them. Whatever occurs, nothing can prevent general and public worship; the day begins and ends with prayer. At 4, in the morning, every soul on the island repai...
