A first-person account of a voyage aboard a British merchant ship in the mid-19th century. The author recounts the various dangers faced by seafarers of the time, from shipwrecks to piracy, while also providing detailed observations of the natural world and descriptions of life aboard the ship. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This...
Related Subjects
History Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Poetry