Life and Adventure in the South Pacific (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Life and Adventure in the South Pacific (Classic Reprint) written by John D. Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Adventure in the South Pacific The present volume lays no claim to literary merit. Two young men, led to engage in the whale-fisheries, and spending five years in the employment, have com piled from their log-books and their recollection a plain, unvarnished narrative of this period. The work is placed before the public as an account of localities few have visited, and the detail of an employment of which little is generally known. The chief effort in the way of style has been to give vivid descriptions, and make the reader the companion of the traveler. Aside from the information of the volume, it is enlivened by life on shipboard. In these days of many books, in which voyages have no small representation, it may seem almost pre sumptuous to put forth another tale of travel. Yet ev ery traveler has his own experiences; and the sailors who offer here their narrative for the landsman's inspec tion believe that their yarn is not an old one, and they have some confidence that the reader will not say it is a dull one. 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.