From Baird Maritime:
Edited by the author's great-grandson, this is the biography of a boy from the London slums of the 1840s. By "running away" to sea, he made a life for himself that was terrifying, fascinating, harrowing and fulfilling by turns.
His life was a long one. He saw a lot of the world and an amazing rate of technological and political development both ashore and afloat. Fortunately, he had the wit and ability to record his experiences in this delightful book.
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