Download or read book Life on the Ocean, Or Thirty-Five Years at Sea written by William C. Paddack and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life on the Ocean, or Thirty-Five Years at Sea: Being the Personal Adventures of the Author All the incidents of this book are facts from my own personal experience during thirty-five years passed upon the ocean. Of that time I spent four years on board of a whaleship, and thirty-one years on board of merchant vessels. I do not pretend to be a literary character; but I do claim to know how to rig and sail a ship, and to be familiar with whatever is connected with a nautical life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.