An Old Sailor's Yarns
Author: Roland Folger Coffin
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 172
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Author: Roland Folger Coffin
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 172
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Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 291
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld Sailor's Yarns is a collection of nautical tales focusing on Captain Robert Bowline's life with his daughter, an experienced and wizened sailor by the name of Old Cuff, two rival captains, and much more. Excerpt: "Captain Robert Bowline, a retired sea-captain, occupied a snug little farm in the town of B——, one of the many pleasant villages on the coast of New England. He had followed the sea for many years, acquired considerable property, married, and had a family. When he had attained his forty-fifth year, a relation of his wife died, leaving her heiress to a very handsome estate..."
Author: Nathaniel Ames
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 1465596372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy father, Eric Wetherholm, was a Shetlander. He was born in the Isle of Unst, the most northern of those far-off islands, the Shetlands. He loved his native land, though it might be said to be somewhat backward in point of civilisation; though no trees are to be found in it much larger than gooseberry bushes, or cattle bigger than sheep; though its climate is moist and windy, and its winter days but of a few hoursÕ duration. But, in spite of these drawbacks, it possesses many points to love, many to remember. Wild and romantic, and, in some places, grand scenery, lofty and rocky precipices, sunny downs and steep hills, deep coves with clear water, in which the sea-trout can be seen swimming in shoals, and, better still, kind, honest, warm hearts, modest women with sweet smiles, and true, honest men. Once only in my youth was I there. I remember well, on a bright summerÕs day, standing on one of the highest of its lofty hills, sprinkled with thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, and as I looked over the hundreds of isles and islets of every variety of form, grouping round the mainland, as the largest island is called, I thought that in all my wanderings I had never seen a greener or more lovely spot floating on a surface of brighter blue; truly I felt proud of the region which my poor father claimed as the place of his birth. I knew very little of his early history. Like the larger proportion of Shetland men, he followed the sea from his boyhood, and made several voyages, on board a whaler, to BaffinÕs Bay. Once his ship had been nipped by the ice, whirled helplessly against an iceberg, when he alone with two companions escaped the destruction which overwhelmed her. Finally he returned home, and, sickened of voyages in icy regions, became mate of a merchantman trading out of the port of Hull round the English coast. On one occasion, his brig having received severe damage in a heavy gale, put into Plymouth harbour to obtain repairs. He there met an old shipmate, John Trevelyn, who had given up the sea and settled with his family on shore.
Author: John Codman
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 262
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 396
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 892
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 528
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