Yankee Swanson

Author : A. W. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331255215
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Yankee Swanson written by A. W. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Yankee Swanson: Chapters From a Life at Sea In the following pages I have endeavored to give the reader a correct idea of sea life such as I myself experienced thirty-five years ago. The sort of life which I have tried to portray will in a few years be a thing of the past; in fact, even now sailing vessels are scarce, and with the completion of the Panama Canal it is generally conceded that they will be doomed to the scrap-heap, and that with them will also disappear such conditions as I have tried to describe. Sea stories as a rule are interesting, especially to landlubbers, and the libraries are full of such works; but as the majority of them are written by people who know very little about the real sea life and never had any actual experience of it, it follows that, no matter how able the writer, the story in itself is devoid of or lacking in what I might call salt sea air. For many years, commencing with my boyhood days, I have been in the habit of keeping a diary wherein I made notes of things that happened on shipboard, this with the object in view of writing a book at some future time. My grandfather, ninety years old when I left home, was in a way instrumental in starting me to keep a diary, he having kept one during ten years of campaigning with Napoleon, and he very often expressed a wish to be able to make use of his notes to write a book. Hence my idea of writing. Some time ago, when I decided to make use of my diary for writing, I intended to cram my whole thirty-six years' experience into one story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.