Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734025753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Ned Myers by James Fenimore Cooper
Ned Myers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734025753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Ned Myers by James Fenimore Cooper
Ned Myers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Ned Myers; Or, A Life Before the Mast
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Ned Myers (Illustrated)
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736805659
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Ned Myers (born 1793) was an American sailor. Born in Quebec as a British subject, Myers grew up in Halifax after being abandoned by his father. He moved to New York City at the age of eleven, cherishing the dream of becoming a sailor. Two years later, while serving aboard the merchant ship Sterling, Myers would meet James Fenimore Cooper, who would later write a biography of him. Myers rejected his status as a British subject and became an American citizen, something that would cause him trouble when he was captured by a Royal Navy warship in the summer of 1812. He was a survivor of the sinking of the USS Scourge (1812). However, Myers would live through the War of 1812, meeting with Cooper in 1843 for the authoring of his biography.
Ned Myers; or, a Life before the mast. Edited by J. Fenimore Cooper. Narrated by E. R. Myers, and written down by J. Fenimore Cooper
Author: Edward Robert MYERSCooper's Works: Ned Myers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Novels of James Fenimore Cooper. Lionel Lincoln. Oak Openings. Ned Myers. Precaution
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The View from the Masthead
Author: Hester BlumPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines the first-person narratives of working sailors, from little-known sea tales to more famous works by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Henry Dana. In their narratives, sailors wrote about how their working lives coexisted with--indeed, mutually drove--their imaginative lives. Even at leisure, they were always on the job site. Blum analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea. She argues that the extent of sailors' literacy and the range of their reading were unusual for a laboring class, belying the popular image of Jack Tar as merely a swaggering, profane, or marginal figure. As Blum demonstrates, seamen's narratives propose a method for aligning labor and contemplation that has broader applications for the study of American literature and history.
Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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