The Romance of an Old Time Shipmaster (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Russell, John Willard) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Romance of an Old Time Shipmaster For almost a hundred years these letters and sea-journals of an old-fashioned American shipmaster, were locked in the battered sea-chest which had voyaged with him in the little schooners and brigs that he courageously navigated to the West Indies, Europe and Africa from 1796 to 1813. This Captain John Willard Russell, mariner of Bristol, R.I., achieved no great distinction in the annals of his time, but he was one of a great company of undaunted Americans who braved such perils as have long since vanished from the seas to play a part in building a mighty commerce for a young nation. Other briny memoirs of the eighteenth century era have come to light, but in none of them can be found, so far as I have been able to discover, so very intimate and human a portrait of a man who was fairly typical of his time. For the most part, these are love-letters, written during courtship and through the tragically brief years of his married life with Nancy Smith of Bristol. 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.
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