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Before the Wind : The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
Before the Wind The Memoir of an American Sea Captain 18081833
Author: Charles Tyng, Susan Fels (Editor)
Charles Tyng (1801-1879) first embarked on a sea voyage as a teenager, from his home in Massachusetts all the way to China. He went on to numerous ports on many continents, visiting notable personalities and rulers and experiencing all the adventures and mishaps characteristic of an early 19th-century sea captain's career. His true-life acco...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670886326
ISBN-10: 0670886327
Publication Date: 6/1/1999
Pages: 270
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Publisher: Viking
Book Type: Paperback
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There is something natural and immediate about Tyng's writing.For anyone who had a childhood fantasy of shipping out for a distant voyage on a nineteeth-century commercial sailing vessel,
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A superb diary of a 19th century sea captain. Superb!


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