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This book just ended, almost in the middle of things, nothing resolved at all. Miles is pulled from the Hudson, his sister still lives, Lucy is on board, but he has not told her he loves her - what gives? What gives is that you have to read the sequel "Miles Wallingford" to find the answers.
So much mariner language in this, of which I understood nary a word or action, But loads of excitement on the high seas, and Moses Marble a very memorable character.
As in Dickens, all the women, with the possible exception of Emily Merton, are so saintly as to be disgusting. Probably written around , full of the "n" word, and a healthy belief in slavery in New York State. On a rereading some six years later, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. But now I saw how important class is to Miles - or Cooper.
And how very often everybody, men and women, weep. Rupert is a real snot, just despicable. Interesting picture of New York City in , and the upper Hudson.
And now I see already knowing the plot how Cooper digresses so much to give us his opinion of society in vs. Sounds like today, in that the past was so much better in manners and mores than the present. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale.
Set up a giveaway. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Sea-sick while preparing for such a fierce struggle!
To use a word, unworthy, perhaps, but for which just now we have no better substitute, there was pluck , -- whatever be the word expressing the quality itself, in that quality Americans have never yet been wanting, -- not even when sea-sick, as it mould appear from history! The pictures of marine life in "Afloat and Ashore" were truthfully sketched, and tinged with the peculiar coloring of the period, in accordance with facts which his own memory recalled, or from incidents related to him by older seamen, who had been either in the navy or in the merchant service during those critical years.
It was indeed a period of peculiar naval activity. The development of our own merchant service was very rapid, from the moment the Republic had secured a flag of its own to sail under.
The general convulsions in Europe, especially the naval warfare between [xiii] France and England, connected with the facts of the number of American merchantmen already at sea, and the want of a navy to protect them, led, of course, to gross abuses of power on the part of the two chief belligerents, as regarded the youngest of all the maritime nations of the century. Powerful, and one may say tyrannical, hostile fleets were cruising in every known sea; privateers and letters of marque, both English and French, mere scattered over the ocean, hovering about every coast in search of prey; Barbary pirates were working their lawless will on the African and Spanish coasts; corsairs and pirates only a degree more lawless were numerous in the Indies, East and West, and amid all these perils young Wallingford steers his may with a simple, manly, unpretending gallantry which commands our respect and our sympathy for the hero of "Afloat and Ashore.
The interest in this sea tale does not centre on one or two vessels, as in the "Pilot," the "Red Rover," the "Water-Witch," or "Wing-and-Wing. The Tigris had reached the capes of Virginia on her return voyage. Here she fell in with a large vessel, looking strangely like the Ganges, a well-known Indiaman, belonging to the port of Philadelphia, a sister craft of her own; and yet to the experienced eye of the captain of the Tigris she showed many signs of change. The stranger threw a shot under the fore-foot of the Tigris, and hoisted the American pennant and ensign.
Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in Set in , the novel follows the maritime adventures of. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.
It was now seen that she was a [xiv] man-of-war, and an American. A few months earlier there had been not one vessel of war bearing the American flag at sea. Here was the explanation; the Ganges, recently an Indiaman, had been adopted into the navy, armed and manned, and was actually the first man-of-war of the newly organized American navy that carried the flag of the country to sea.
There's a problem loading this menu right now. Neb singlehandedly saves the ship from pirates and French privateers on two separate occasions, but is never recognized by the crew. I will mention that the end is a little maddening. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Open Preview See a Problem? A bit simplistic, consistent with the genre, but gives a look into the mindset of the times. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item
Her commander was the brave Captain Dale, so well-known at a later day as Commodore Dale.