The Yarn Of A Bucko Mate: His Adventures In Two Oceans - Couverture souple

Hamblen, Herbert Elliott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1163783013 ISBN 13 : 9781163783016

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Yarn of a Bucko Mate CHAPTER I EARLY AMBITION A CHANGED VIEW LURID DAY- DREAMS I RUN AWAY FROM HOME A RAILROAD WRECK A GOOD SAMARITAN ADRIFT AGAIN MY earliest ambition was to become an astronomer. An itinerant lecturer, who held forth one winters evening at the village schoolhouse, so filled me with admiration for the noble science that I vowed to devote my life to its study. Had I followed up the inspiration, I might have become a Herschel, or a Proctor. But there was in my nature an unsuspected undercurrent, which, on awakening, overcame my high ambition and sent me off at a tangent to become a mere rover of the seas, a wandering vagrant on the face of the earth. To my chum, Jake Woodford, is due the credit of this radical change in my choice of a career. He lent me a gorgeously illustrated, yellow-covered book, which fired my young blood with tales of the adventures of Blackboard, Captain Kidd, and other worthies of the same stripe. I took my treasure to the barn loft, and there stealthily revelled in its thrilling accounts of the daring deeds of the old SeaR
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1163783013
• ISBN 13: 9781163783016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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