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John Sherburne Sleeper
"Jack In The Forecastle" by John Sherburne Sleeper is a thrilling maritime adventure, blending action and suspense with vivid storytelling. Set against the backdrop of the vast ocean, Sleeper's narrative…
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Hawser Martingale
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Mark Rowland - A Tale of the South Sea is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain…
Title: Jack in the forecastle, or, Incidents in the early life of Hawser Martingale.Author: John Sherburne SleeperPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin…
I was born towards the close of the last century in a village pleasantly situated on the banks of the Merrimack in Massachusetts. For the satisfaction of the curious and…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
John Sherburne Sleeper (1794-1878) was an American sailor, ship master, novelist (who used the pseudonym of Hawser Martingale), journalist and politician. Sleeper was the publisher and editor of the Exeter…
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