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Title: Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833 by Charles Tyng, Susan Fels ISBN: 0-14-029191-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This book is the real thing. If you want to know what it took to be a sea captain in the early 19th century, this is the book for you. informative fascinating, it shows how by force of personality, an ability to command, a bit of luck you,starting with no money, you could rise up through the ranks from sailor to owning your own ship and become a merchant prince. Very inspiring.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Memoir of the Sea
Comment: This is an interesting memoir of the early life of sailor, captain, and businessman. Unlike other memoirs of the sea, this covers life on the sea from bottom to top: from Tyne's start as a child-sailor, to his rise to captain, finally to ship owner and commodities speculator. It includes some very good passages, which vididly portray the many dangers of a life at sea in the early 19th century. Most of it is interestings and enlightening, but this book is not the literary equal of Two Years Before The Mast.
Rating: 4
Summary: Getting rich the hard way
Comment: While Charles Tyng's brothers became wealthy as doctors, lawyers and land-based businessmen, Charles (due to his poor study habits) was forced to pursue the much more dangerous and uncertain vocation of sailor and sea-merchant. This is definitely no dry account of business deals. This story is about Charles' struggles against cruel and incompetent superiors, ferocious storms at sea, mutinous and violent crews, pirate attacks, shark attacks and, for good measure a bout with cholera. If even half of Tyng's account is true, he was very, very lucky to live to old age. Tyng was obviously a man who was very curious by nature and so he was able to describe in detail many aspects of the people, places and operations that he witnessed (such as whale hunting, sugar processing, and opium smuggling). Most of it is very interesting because it paints a piture of a world very different from our modern world. Tyng himself is likable, for the most part, although he definitely was a bit of a rogue; he pulls a few pratical jokes on people that adds some humor to the story. I only give it four stars because there were a couple short dry patches in the book. Overall, though, very enjoyable.
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Title: Her Privates We by Frederic Manning, William Boyd ISBN: 1852427175 Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Way of a Ship : A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail by Derek Lundy ISBN: 0066210127 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith ISBN: 0471078646 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Faith of My Fathers by John McCain, Mark Salter ISBN: 0375501916 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby ISBN: 0864427689 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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