| Description |
xii, 177 pages, 16 unnmbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Ujae -- City of ships -- "I wondered where the captain was?" -- "The large vessel" -- Rainier -- Knocked in the head -- A splendid run -- An oasis of the southern Pacific -- "Breakers ahead" -- Among "savages" -- fear and reassurance -- Building a schooner -- Jaluit -- and back -- Ujae -- and back to Jaluit -- "Can't kill Will!" -- Flat on my back -- The bloodiest ship afloat -- Salmon, glaciers, and grand sights -- "I could almost imagine I was out there" -- Prize master -- "The ways and means of the world" -- George Spencer Hinsdale -- "A good sensible girl" -- California and Drumm Streets -- Homecoming -- Epilogue: Will Jackson Day. |
| Summary |
"The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in Maine and his diary offer a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity, no small ambition, and that most admirable of traits, an abiding sense of humor"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Shipwrecks -- Marshall Islands -- Ujae Atoll.
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Rainier (Ship : 1883-1884)
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Jackson, Will (Richard Willis), 1861-1889.
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Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
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Shipwreck victims -- United States -- Biography.
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Bath (Me.) -- Biography.
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Sailors. (OCoLC)fst01103543
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Shipwreck victims. (OCoLC)fst01116637
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Shipwrecks. (OCoLC)fst01116638
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Maine -- Bath.
(OCoLC)fst01210217
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Marshall Islands -- Ujae Atoll.
(OCoLC)fst01870891
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival.
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| Added Author |
Hill, Alexander Jackson, 1977- author.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hill, Frederic B., 1939- Flick of sunshine Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2022] 9781493060825 (DLC) 2021048376 |
| ISBN |
9781493060818 hardcover |
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1493060813 hardcover |
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9781493060825 electronic publication |
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