Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2014-07-24 Public domain in the USA. 88 Macy, William Hussey 1826 1891 Macy, W. H. (William Hussey) Macy, Wm. H. (William Hussey) There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa Produced by Giovanni Fini andThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa" by William Hussey Macy is a nautical adventure narrative written in the late 19th century. This book presents a series of illustrated sketches based on real events from the author’s own experiences at sea, particularly in the whaling industry. The narrative introduces readers to the life of a young man who, eager for adventure and influenced by his study of seafaring tales, embarks on a whaling voyage aboard the Arethusa. At the start of the journey, the protagonist, a fresh-faced youth of eighteen, arrives in New York City and makes the decision to join a whaling expedition. He encounters a shipping agent, Mr. Ramsay, who presents the exhilarating life of a whaleman filled with potential adventure and financial reward. Upon boarding the Lydia Ann, the ship that will take him to Nantucket, he meets a colorful crew of fellow aspiring sailors, each with their own backgrounds and motivations. The opening chapters set the stage for the subsequent journey, shedding light on the initial excitement and challenges of life at sea, including youthful naivete, sea sickness, and the camaraderie among the crew as they prepare to set sail on their whaling adventure. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46390/46390-h/images/cover.jpg en Whaling -- Fiction Sea stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 539954 539962 2024-09-19T11:17:21.314393 2023-09-20T07:28:18.019627 text/html text/html 544995 2014-07-24T07:05:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 369612 2014-07-24T07:05:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 399681 2024-09-19T11:17:28.687327 application/epub+zip 404054 2024-09-19T11:17:22.413368 application/epub+zip 285253 2024-09-19T11:17:21.862381 application/epub+zip 558177 2024-09-19T11:17:33.622329 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 506386 2024-09-19T11:17:28.057324 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 388661 2022-09-21T06:08:40.057837 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 495910 495721 2024-09-19T11:17:20.536411 2023-09-20T07:28:17.286597 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 495658 2014-07-24T07:05:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 195165 2014-07-24T07:05:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 495653 2014-07-24T07:05:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 195138 2014-07-24T07:05:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20450 2024-09-19T11:17:33.759305 application/rdf+xml 21250 2024-09-19T11:17:21.944361 image/jpeg 2843 2024-09-19T11:17:21.903358 image/jpeg 369957 2024-09-19T11:17:21.380373 application/octet-stream application/zip