Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days - From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck; With 29 Illustrations From Photographs #233005

This question has been often asked me when relating some tale of adventure or humorous anecdote of my sea life. For the reason that I know nothing of book writing, I have replied. A school experience of seventy years ago, cut short at the age of twelve years, was not likely to leave a boy, however bright, with a high order of literary attainment. But, as years rolled on, after giving up the sea as a profession, I concluded to jot down from memory my quarter-century's sea experience. The characters are from life, the scenes and incidents as they appeared to me at the time, in a story of a New England boy's career from the age of twelve to thirty seven.