An actual 1837 Atlantic trip aboard a Sag Harbor whaler told in fictional form, illustrated with woodcuts. Well-disguised fictional account of sailors’ life, near-mutiny and desertion, etc. The hero is a novel reader (see p. 61-2, 92, 139), and the author an accomplished writer.
Five Years Before the Mast, Or Life in the Forecastle, Aboard of a Whaler and Man of War.
Hazen, Jacob A. Second edition. (Philadelphia, William P. Hazard, 1854).
- Whalemen's Reading
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Five Years before the Mast, or Life in the Forecastle, Aboard of a Whaler and Man of War.
Hazen, Jacob A. 2d. Edition. Philadelphia: William P. Hazard, 1854.
- Maritime Reading
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An actual 1837 Atlantic trip aboard a Sag Harbor whaler, told in fictional form, a well-disguised fictional account of sailors’ life, near-mutiny, and desertion, etc. The hero is a novel reader (see p. 61-2, 92, 139), and the author an accomplished writer.