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Book Review of Before the Wind : The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833

Before the Wind : The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
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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,