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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Travel in Australia and Oceania discuss travel and adventures on the continent of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Titles include: "God's own country" an appreciation of Australia, A Month in the Bush of Australia: Journal of One of a Party of Gentlemen who recently travelled from Sydney to Port Philip, A Visit to Australia and Its Gold Regions, A voice from the Australia...

Excerpt from Confessions of a Tradesman T is a particular, and not altogether pleasant, feature of literary work in Britain that should an author make a certain amount of success with a book on one particular topic, it is thenceforward tacitly assumed that he must stick to that topic, assaying no other on pain of being mercilessly taken to task by the critics. Or what is worse, damned with faint praise. With this knowledge very vividly impres...

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Excerpt from Our Heritage the Sea This being so (and I have not the slightest fear of its being questioned), I feel that no apology is needed for my present attempt to present, in a series of sketches, the salient points concerning our heritage the sea, while fully conscious of my many limitations and scanty equipment for so important a task. In this respect I may say that I have endeavoured to summarize in readable fashion the substance of m...

Excerpt from The Men of the Merchant Service: Being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine for 'Longshore Readers Meanwhile the white-winged fleets come and go in far greater numbers than landsmen have any idea of, and as nearly all authorities are agreed that, in spite Of the immense strides taken by steam navigation, the sailing-ship is still the only school wherein to train a thorough seafarer, she will certainly receive her full meed Of atte...

Excerpt from The Apostles of the Southeast In the following pages it has been my earnest endeavour to set forth under fictitious names and in places which do not really exist the real sayings and doings of men and women who are known to me and with whom I have been associated for many years in mission work. I have made no attempt to tell a sensational story. I earnestly hope and pray that out of the telling of my story some good may come, wh...

Excerpt from Idylls of the SeaLet my plea be that I have not seen with their eyes nor heard with their ears, but with mine own. This may have some weight with my judges those Who will buy the wares I have to sell.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...

Excerpt from A Sack of Shakings Most Of the Essays brought together in the present volume have been published in the Spectator, and are here reproduced by the kind permission Of the proprietors of that journal, for which I Offer them my hearty thanks. It may perhaps not be out Of place to mention, for the benefit Of any who may wish to know why these Articles have been published in book form, that thé action has been taken in deference to the...

[The Cruise of the Cachalot] is immense-there is no other word. I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale-fishing, and at the same time given such real and new sea pictures." RUDYARD KIPLING The Cruise of the Cachalot is the story of a ship-a South Sea whaler-and the men who sailed on her. First published in 1897, it is t...

Frank Thomas Bullen (1857-1915), British novelist, was born in London and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9 he left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and travelled to all parts of the world in various capacities including that of chief mate. In 1883 he became a clerk in the Meteorological Office until 1889. His reputation was made over the publication...

In the following pages an attempt has been made--it is believed for the first time--to give an account of the cruise of a South Sea whaler from the seaman's standpoint. Two very useful books have been published--both of them over half a century ago--on the same subject, but, being written by the surgeons of whale- ships for scientific purposes, neither of them was interesting to the general reader. ["Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Glo...

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: D. Appleton and C...

The ultimate whaling narrative, as told by the first mate on the Cachalot.