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Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale
Set in the early 1800s, it follows Miles Wallingford Jr., a wealthy New York landowner's son who goes to sea after his parents' death.
"Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale" by James Fenimore Cooper is a nautical fiction novel. Set in the early 1800s, it follows Miles Wallingford Jr., a wealthy New York landowner's son who goes to sea after his parents' death.
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I was born in a valley not very remote from the sea. My father had been a sailor in youth, and some of my earliest recollections are connected with the history of his adventures, and the recollections they excited. He had been a boy in the war of the revolution, and had seen some service in the shipping of that period. Among other scenes he witnessed, he had been on board the Trumbull, in her action with the Watt—the hardest-fought naval combat of that war—and he particularly delighted in relating its incidents. He had been wounded in the battle, and bore the marks of the injury, in a scar that slightly disfigured a face, that, without this blemish, would have been singularly handsome. My mother, after my poor father's death, always spoke of even this scar as a beauty spot. Agreeably to my own recollections, the mark scarcely deserved that commendation, as it gave one side of the face a grim and fierce appearance, particularly when its owner was displeased.
Contents
- 01Preface.
- 02Afloat and Ashore.
- 03Chapter I.
- 04Chapter II.
- 05Chapter III.
- 06Dear Rupert:
- 07Grace Wallingford.
- 08Dear Miles:
- 09Lucy Hardinge.
- 10Chapter IV.
- 11Chapter V.
- 12Chapter VI.
- 13Chapter VII.
- 14Chapter VIII.
- 15Chapter IX.
- 16Chapter X.
- 17Chapter XI.
- 18Chapter XII.
- 19Chapter XIII.
- 20Chapter XIV.
- 21Chapter XV.
- 22Chapter XVI.
- 23Chapter XVII.
- 24Chapter XVIII
- 25Chapter XIX.
- 26Chapter XX.
- 27Chapter XXI.
- 28Chapter XXII.
- 29Chapter XXIII.
- 30Chapter XXIV.
- 31Chapter XXV.
- 32Chapter XXVI.
- 33Chapter XXVII.
- 34Chapter XXVIII.
- 35Chapter XXIX.
- 36Chapter XXX.
About this edition
- Author
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 364 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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