| Yorke The Adventurer: 1901 Contributor(s): Becke, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798561492099 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 6" W x 9" (0.24 lbs) 74 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In that delightful and exciting book, written by Captain Joshua Slocum, and entitled, "Sailing Alone Round the World," there is a part wherein the adven-turous American seaman relates how he protected himself from night attacks by the savages by a simple, but efficient precaution. It was his custom, when he anchored for the night off the snow-clad and inhospi-table shores of Tierra del Fuego, to profusely sprinkle his cutter's deck with sharp tacks, and then calmly turn in and sleep the sleep of the just; for even the horny soles of the Fuegian foot is susceptible to the business end of a tack; and, as I read Slocum's story, I smiled, and thought of dear old Yorke and the Fran-cesco. |