Another absolutely superb work by this author. To think I'd never heard of him until recently, and only stumbled across him because of this much-appreciated web site (manybooks.net)!
An absolutely outstanding piece of masterfully written work, delightfully droll in many places, historically instructive in others, esp. within the last one-third. VERY highly recommended, much more so than even some of Josef Conrad's excellent works.
Different, fast-moving, has mainly to with itinerant US sailors who speak like 1960's-70's hippies in the 1870's-1880's S. Pacific and Carribean. Not Hemingway or Conrad, for sure.
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