A Year With a Whaler (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Year With a Whaler San Francisco on a Whaling voyage a few years ago, I was a member Of her forecastle crew. Once outside the Golden Gate, I felt the swing of blue water under me for the first time in my life. I was not shanghaied. Let's have that settled at the start. I had shipped as a green hand before the mast for the adventure Of the thing, because I wanted to go, for the glamor Of the sea was upon me. I was taking breakfast in a San Francisco restaurant When, in glancing over the morning paper, I chanced across this advertisement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.