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Sons of Portugal
This translation of The Lusiads into prose of an epic poem by Luis Vaz de Camoes. It describes the voyages of Vasco de Gama, a successful Portuguese explorer of the 15th century Age of Discovery. Like epic poetry should,… -
It's What Sailors Do, fer Pete's Sake
I read the memoir Seaspray and Whisky: Reminiscences of a Tramp Ship Voyage by Norman Freeman for the Seafaring II reading challenge, a young teetotal Irishman accepts a position as radio guy on a tramp going from Liverp… -
Danger at Sea
For the Seafaring II Challenge, I read Le Passager du Polarlys aka The Mystery of the Polarlys aka Danger at Sea (Georges Simenon, 1932) would be a worth reading for us fanatics who think Simenon couldn’t write a lousy b… -
On the Suave, Glistening Sulu Sea
I read Delilah: A Novel by Marcus Goodrich as the 7th of 10 books for the Seafaring II reading challenge. When the novel was first published in 1941, Sinclair Lewis asserted that it was “more real than reality.” In a rev… -
Long John Silver
I read Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson for the Seafaring II Challenge. A romance, not a novel, so I figure RLS doesn’t have to follow the rule that a novel should feature action and motivation at least possible… -
Zheng He's Voyages of Power Projection
I read Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 as the 4th of 10 for the Seafaring II Challenge. Edward L. Dreyer (2007 obituary here) taught Chinese, Asian, and military history at the Unive… -
"To the Eastern Wealth through Storms we Go"
I read HMS Surprise by Patrick O’Brian as the 5th of ten for the Seafaring II Challenge. The third novel in the famous series tells the story of Jack’s mission to deliver a British envoy to Kampong, Cambodia. But along w… -
Classic Tramp Steamer Memoir
I read The Sea and the Jungle by H.M. Tomlinson as the 3rd of 10 for the Seafaring II Challenge. In 1910, Tomlinson sailed on the English tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Porto Velho, Brazil, near the cataracts of t… -
Dream & Illusion
I read Typhoon and Other Stories (Joseph Conrad) as the 2nd of 10 for the Seafaring II Challenge. For Conrad, life at sea and in port presents a series of trials that pit a person’s integrity against natural and social f… -
Talk Techno-babble, Ya Swabs
I read Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian for the 1st of ten books for the Seafaring Challenge II. With the fifth book of the renowned Aubrey-Maturin series on my horizon, I confess that the nautical l…
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