Bullen gathers stories written out of his own years before the mast, opening aboard the steel four-masted clipper Mirzapore as her elegant chief officer scorns a clumsy rival ship. The collection mixes short episodes of fire and peril at sea with longer tales told across several chapters, such as “The Old House on the Hill”.
Authentic sailing-ship fiction by the author of The Cruise of the Cachalot. Download the free EPUB.