Born on the banks of the Merrimack near the end of the eighteenth century, Hawser Martingale leaves New England as a boy for a life at sea. He is pressed into the Royal Navy, sails to Demerara, Charleston and the Windward Islands, and meets privateers, rogues and storms, all told as the memoir of a seasoned sailor.
A vivid, knowledgeable picture of merchant seafaring by a Boston editor who had been a ship’s master himself. Download the free EPUB.