Twenty Years Under the Sea (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. E. Williamson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-05-17
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780259460183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Twenty Years Under the Sea MY father's people came from Scotland and it was here that he was born. John Williamson, his father, was the youngest Of nine brothers, all six-footers and shipbuilders. John married Agnes Bell at Annan, Scotland, and later they moved down to the sea and ships at Liverpool, the saltiest of seaports, bringing with them Charles, their tiniest infant, who was to become my seafaring father. On the day I was born my father was navigating his ship under double reef topsails around the tip Of Cape Horn. Here near the bottom of the world and sur rounded by mountainous seas, he was thousands of miles away from home, yet only on the first leg of a voyage. In those days months, even years, might pass before a sailor could make his home port again. In fact I was nearly three years Old before my father cast his seafaring eye on the trim of my rigging. 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.
