Author: William Henry Giles KingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea
Author: William Henry Giles KingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Happy Jack and Other Tales of the Sea
Author: W. H. G. KingstonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512281194
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea
Author: William Henry Giles KingstonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
'Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea' is a naval adventure novel written by William Henry Giles Kingston. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Jack, a happy-go-lucky and athletic young boy who decides to explore the world by going to sea, despite his father's desire for him to pursue a learned profession. Jack ends up on the Naiad, a dirty and dingy brig, where he reflects on the difficult conditions faced by the crew. Nevertheless, he finds himself enjoying the adventure.
Happy Jack
Author: W. H. G. KingstonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781975879921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
other Tales of the Sea
Happy Jack and Other Tales of the Sea - W. H. G. Kingston
Author: W. H. G. KingstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781449923600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A passage from the book... Have any of you made a passage on board a steamer between London and Leith? If you have, you will have seen no small number of brigs and brigantines, with sails of all tints, from doubtful white to decided black-some deeply-laden, making their way to the southward, others with their sides high out of the water, heeling over to the slightest breeze, steering north.On board one of those delectable craft, a brig called the Naiad, I found myself when about fourteen summers had passed over my head. She must have been named after a negress naiad, for black was the prevailing colour on board, from the dark, dingy forecastle to the captain's state cabin, which was but a degree less dirty than the portion of the vessel in which I was destined to live. The bulwarks, companion-hatch, and other parts had, to be sure, once upon a time been painted green, but the dust from the coal, which formed her usual cargo, had reduced every portion to one sombre hue, which even the salt seas not unfrequently breaking over her deck had failed to wash clean.Captain Grimes, her commander, notwithstanding this, was proud of the old craft; and he especially delighted to tell how she had once carried a pennant when conveying troops to Corunna, or some other port in Spain.I pitied the poor fellows confined to the narrow limits of her dark hold, redolent of bilge water and other foul odours. We, however, had not to complain on that score, for the fresh water which came in through her old sides by many a leak, and had to be pumped out every watch, kept her hold sweet.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Supplement and Finding List of Recent Additions to the Lending Department, 1888-1893
Author: Borough of Portsmouth Free Public Libraries. Central LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description