Enoch's Voyage

by Enoch Carter Cloud

In the middle of August, 1851, young Enoch Carter Cloud, of land-locked Columbus, Ohio, cast his fate literally to the winds and signed up to sail out of New Bedford on the whale ship 'The Henry Kneeland'. For nearly 3 years he kept a journal detailing the glory, hardships, and dangers of life at sea. The journey took Cloud around the world -- from New England to Portugal, around Africa, to New Zealand and across the Pacific. Encounters with native peoples, mutinous crew members, and the elements are depicted in the peculiarly colourful and detailed language of the time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559210796
• ISBN13: 9781559210799
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Moyer Bell
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Vibrant and Personal of a life at sea

Cloud has taken us on his journey to sea from the historic port of New Bedford, Mass. Setting out to "Go a Whalin" Cloud seems to not have fully appreciated what he was in for and did not take the advice of an old salt on shore who had warned him off. Sailing for the oil was the boom of his day, and the years it took to return were well rewarded if the ship did well. Each day cloud takes us about the ship to feel the day's events as he personally lived them, the chase, the pull, the hook, the cutting, the boiling, the oil always the oil. Cloud is very eloquent in his description of the crew and is always one for a humourous tone if it need be. A longing for home and the comforts of family are the true story here and the diary is always the best to read the real story behind the words. A perfect book for a rainy stormy night under the covers!!!