| "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men: From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Contributor(s): Becke, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798561526299 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Physical Information: 0.06" H x 6" W x 9" (0.11 lbs) 28 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in a certain Australian coasting steamer more than twenty years before-he as chief officer and I as passenger; and her ship-wreck one Christmas Eye (long after), which was attended by an appalling loss of life, led us to talk of "pig-headed" skippers generally. His experiences were large, and some of his stories were terrible even to hear, others were gro-tesquely humorous, and the memory of that particularly pleasant passage across a sea as smooth as a mill pond, has impelled me to retell some of the incidents I related to him of my own adventures with obstinate, self-willed, or incapable captains. |