Helpful Score: 1
As a wanna be sailor, I was fascinated by the detail of this book. I cannot ever imagine myself in that situation and know that I would not be able to tolerate it. Our 21st century sensibilities cannot even fathom the hardship that was endured on the voyage. Months without washing my hair? Horrors! I was glad to have the graphics of the boats in the back even though they were a little hard to read. I also had to get out a map of California to see the coastal areas he was referring to.
Just sbsolutely fascinating.
Just sbsolutely fascinating.
A powerful story of sailing's joys and hardships in the early 1800s.
Printed in 1944.
Note: This edition is abridged.
This is an interesting and informative book. It goes into lots of detail about sailors lives, much of which is mundane. It is not a book to read for excitement, though there is some included. It is more a book to be read for information about the time period covered in the book and the lives of the people who lived them.
