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Two Books in One: In a Wooden Battleship, and Whaling
It is more than a hundred years now since Charles Nordhoff first ran away from home to go to sea in a Yankee man-o'-war. Three crowded books originally told the story of his subsequent adventures, three books which in their day, and, indeed, until the turn of the century, were tremendously popular. Now the grandson of the old Yankee seaman, the Charles Nordhoff who is so widely known today as co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty, has compressed these three books, by judicious selecting and editing, into one volume. The result is a great book of the sea to rank with such classics as The Cruise of the "Cachalot" and Two Years Before the Mast.
Like many a young lad of his time, Nordhoff was first attracted to naval ships. In the Columbus he made the famous "open door" voyage to Japan with Perry. Later, in the California clippers, he saw the square rigger reach its ultimate perfection. But the love of his life was whaling and it is in the midst of this great trade and sport that the reader will find himself during the course of most of this exciting book.
—from the dust jacket
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