In Pemberton’s Hotel, beside the highway along Long Island Sound, retired Captain Buckingham spins long yarns of his years afloat. The ship Hebe Maitland, a doomed hotel in a tropical port, a King Julius, the voyage of the Voodoo and a lean, cranky Yankee named Sadler who composes his own sea-prayers in verse wander through narratives as loose and digressive as the captain’s memory.
A humorous, salt-flavoured book of sea yarns for readers who enjoy W. W. Jacobs and Frank Stockton. Download the free EPUB.