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Tough yarns : a series of naval tales and sketches to please all hands, from the swabs on the shoulders down to the swabs in the head / by the Old sailor, author of Greenwich Hospital, etc.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1835 Old
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Old Sailor, 1790-1846.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seafaring life--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Seafaring life.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1835.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Greenwich Hospital. Tom Brookes. Daddy Davy, the Negro
- v. 2. Ghost stories. Frere du Diable. The fisherman's family. The red flag at the fore. The prisoner. The convict. The burning ship. The veteran soldier.
- Notes:
- Old Sailor is a pseudonym for M.H. Barker.
- 24 p. of advertisements at end of v. 2.
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