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What did explorers read?

David H. Stam's Anthologies of the Reading Experience

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Little, George.

. American Cruiser; A Tale of the Last War.

Little, George. Boston, MA: M.J. Reynolds and Waite, Pierce, and Co., 1847.
  • Arctic Reading: United States
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A rather slight novel on two sailors during the War of 1812.

Life on the Ocean, Or Twenty Years at Sea: Being the Personal Adventures of the Author.

Little, George. Second edition.Boston, MA: Waite, Pierce, and Co. 1844.
  • Whalemen's Reading
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A Baltimore Captain in the Merchant Service who gives an autobiographical travel diary while intending to give a true picture of life at sea “blending with it those wholesome moral and religious truths, which should be inculcated upon the minds of seamen (p. 4).

Life on the Ocean, Or Twenty Years at Sea: Being the Personal Adventures of the Author.

Little, George. Second edition.(Boston, MA: Waite, Pierce, and Co. 1844).
  • Maritime Reading
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A Baltimore Captain in the Merchant Service who gives an autobiographical travel diary while intending to give a true picture of life at sea “blending with it those wholesome moral and religious truths, which should be inculcated upon the minds of seamen (p. 4).

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