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Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat or The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro Embracing the Remarkable Episodes in a Life of Toil and Danger o…

from Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro · host E. C. Cornell

Experiences of Jethro Ripley, mainly in the Atlantic coast trade, but including an account of a whaling voyage around Cape Horn. The narrative is in the first person and is a vivid account of the seafaring life in the 1800's. Published in 1873. (Summary by PhyllisV)

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