Author: John R. Spears

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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781332109265

Excerpt from Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer: An Old-Time Sailor of the Sea While employed as a reporter on The Sun, of New York, thirty odd years ago, the writer saw in the January, 1884, issue of Harper's Magazine, an illustrated account of "The Old Packet and Clipper Service." Records of swift passages, hero tales and statements of vast profits were mingled in it in a way that proved memorable. In fact, the whole story was so interesting that the magazine was preserved and became the first item in a collection of books relating to the sea. Naturally this collection came to resemble the original article in that the most important feature. was bibliographical; it came to demonstrate that a history of the sea, at least, is a series of biographies. S, Naturally, too, the records of some of the more active of the old master mariners were duplicated, more or less, in the various accounts - their work had attracted the attention of more than one writer. Accordingly, as the collection was read and reread, the names of certain captains became more and more familiar to the reader and then a time came when the name of one old captain came to mind whenever any true story of the sea was read. 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.