Hard down! Hard down!. Captain Jack Isbester

Hard down! Hard down!

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Автор произведения: Captain Jack Isbester

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Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

Издательство: Ingram

isbn: 9781849954778

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Hard Down! Hard Down! describes the eventful life of a Shetland man in pursuit of his ambitions – to reach the top in his profession, to find a wife, to cherish a family, to do his job well and to be respected by his peers. The account is enlivened by extracts from numerous well-chosen family letters, diaries and postcards revealing the minutiae of shipboard and family life 120 years ago. These include a bachelor night out in ’Frisco, buying slippers in Dantzig and a captain who changed his underclothes at midweek because he could not remember which weekend his wife had suggested!