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Ping Bruce in Bangkok
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:57:06 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:08:01 +1000, Herodotus wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:56:08 +0700, wrote: (Reading preferences snipped) I've long been partial to Joseph Conrad for sea-related literature. But like many others, I've drifted away from the appreciative and thoughtful sensibilities good literature demands. Well, perhaps not from the sensibilities, but at least from the time and effort needed to tune them properly. There are many reading works I promise myself to return to, and yet it doesn't happen. First on my list is Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," which is easily read, and totally engrossing. For now though, I'm settling for the adventures of Bruce, Peter......and Wilbur. --Vic Two years before the mast was responsible for the US Government passing laws to protect the merchant marine sailors from much of the brutality they had been exposed to in the past. He also wrote a book "White Jacket" or "The White Jacket" about a guy who signs on a voyage from San francisco to New York and when he came aboard they didn;t have any clothes to fit him out and one thing they gave him was an 0old white jacket which wasn't much protection so every scrap of cloth he found he sewed into the jacket so that by the time they got into the Atlantic he had a rather warm, smart jacket, albeit of many colored patches. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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