Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purposes of historical study are often more faithfully served by a vivid incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig...
...SAILOR'S RETURN-David Garnett-Knopf...
There is an indefinable quality in David Garnett's genius. No one explained the charm of Lady into Fox; no one will quite explain The Sailor...
Return. The story is simple enough. In the late '50's a plain and hearty British sailor returns to England with his wife-the daughter of an African king-and their baby. They establish themselves in a village pub. The sailor tends bar; the alien princess is his cheerful helpmate. The village reaction results in tragedy. The baby is consigned, through friendly sailor hands, to Africa, perhaps to become a prince again-his mother never knows. The new proprietors of the pub permit her to become the drudge-of-all-work in her old home. Just that...
Meanwhile Jezebel was leading her husband a merry chase. Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...