Boy Crusoe
Author: first_name: Charles W.
last_name: Willis
Language: English
Year: 1910

Also published as "A Yankee Crusoe". A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist.  This is his story. "I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms eac