On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:57:06 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:08:01 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:56:08 +0700, wrote:

(Reading preferences snipped)

I've long been partial to Joseph Conrad for sea-related literature.
But like many others, I've drifted away from the appreciative and
thoughtful sensibilities good literature demands. Well, perhaps not
from the sensibilities, but at least from the time and effort needed
to tune them properly.
There are many reading works I promise myself to return to, and yet it
doesn't happen.
First on my list is Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast,"
which is easily read, and totally engrossing.
For now though, I'm settling for the adventures of Bruce,
Peter......and Wilbur.

--Vic


Two years before the mast was responsible for the US Government
passing laws to protect the merchant marine sailors from much of the
brutality they had been exposed to in the past.

He also wrote a book "White Jacket" or "The White Jacket" about a guy
who signs on a voyage from San francisco to New York and when he came
aboard they didn;t have any clothes to fit him out and one thing they
gave him was an 0old white jacket which wasn't much protection so
every scrap of cloth he found he sewed into the jacket so that by the
time they got into the Atlantic he had a rather warm, smart jacket,
albeit of many colored patches.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)