Before the Wind
Subtitle: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: June 5, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140291919
First sentence: MY MOTHER HAVING PASSED AWAY when I was 7 years old, I was left in a measure to shift for myself amongs my relations, sometimes staying in one place, and then at another, and finally found a home at my Grandmother Atkins's in Newbury, and there went to school at the academy in Belleville.