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The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

Walter Runciman · 1924

A 1924 collection of sea stories by Walter Runciman, drawn from real life, portraying nineteenth-century sailors as brave, rough, humorous men, with chapters on North Sea voyages, sea captains, piracy, forecastle life, and shipboard food.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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