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with a touch of irony, always overshadowed by his deep concern for his farm and family in Maine. He crossed the Atlantic sixty-eight times when at age fifty-eight he set out on his last voyage, planning to retire at its completion. His loss at sea at the height of a severe gale was reported painfully by his mate Henry Twambly of Kennebunkport. Tristram's son Frederick sailed with his father aboard the ship Pepperell in December 1854. An outgoing eighte~n year-old, he stands in sharp contrast to his father in his youthful enthusiasm on his first voyage. Lying on deck one night he speculates prophetically about an afterlife, while determining in his own mind that the life of a seaman was not for him; a ship was a fine place to think in fine weather, but.... He was dead of typhus within two months, outward bound on this, his maiden voyage. Franklin Jordan next takes up the narrative from the deck of the ill-fated Pepperell, from which both his cousin Frederick and his uncle Tristram were lost. In brilliant narrative style, he recounts a voyage to India . The ship and her world come alive under his touch-he writes, in the Indian Ocean: The sea in latitude 40 south was ii-
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luminated by phosphorescent light; it seemed as if the heavens were inverted and we were sailing among the stars. The ship drove before her bows two billows of liquid flame and in her wake was followed by a milky train . As far as eye reached the crest of every wave was bright, and the sky above the horizon was illuminated from the reflected glare of the lurid flames.
Parts of this journal were printed in Sea History Nos. 4 and 5, including its lively account of near shipwreck in the infamous Hoogly River, and Jordan's appreciation of the horrors of Calcutta and the delights of Ceylon, which stands out in vivid relief to his uncle's soured outlook. This joint venture by museum and publisher brings us an authentic statement of the lives of these old sailors, invaluable to those who would. understand them. DOD The Story of the Leviathan: "World's Greatest Ship," Vol. III, by Frank 0. Braynard (New York, South Street Museum, 1976. 400 pp., illus., $25.00). Conceived before World War I in the mind of the strange genius Albert Ballin, who died heartbroken just before the end of the war that had wrecked his dreams, the Leviathan was born as the
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THE MEDLEY OF MAST AND SAIL: A CAMERA RECORD Presented in the form of a photograph album with commentaries, this book portrays the extent and multiplicity of the great, but vanished, era of merchant sailing operations. The content is broadly based, depicting all manner of different types and craft, and covering a very wide variety of rigs ranging from proas, junks, various fishermen · and barges, through coasters, small traders and big square-riggers. 1977. 330 pages. 407 photographs. List price: $21.95 WORLD WARSHIPS IN REVIEW, 1860-1906 By John Leather This volume captures the technical and popular history of the steam warship's most experimental era, from the first screw-driven ironclad to the Dreadnought. 134 hitherto unpublished photographs are accompanied by comprehensive statistics for each vessel. The ships presented are from the navies of Britain, America, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Russia, Japan, Norway , Denmark, and many others. 1977. 264 pages. 134 photos . List Price : $12.50 Send all orders to :
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