Twenty Years Before the Mast, or Life in the Forecastle. Being the Experience and Voyages of Nicholas Peter Isaacs. Containing an Account of His Escapes from Wild Beasts; from the Dangers of War; from British Pressgangs; from Frequent Shipwrecks; Together with Several Remarkable Dreams, and a Mass of Other Interesting Facts, and Including an Account of His Conversion to God. Written by Himself and Revised by the Editor of "Thirty Years from Home."
New York: J. P. Beckwith, 1845. 1st ed. Hardcover. xv, [ii]-iv, [1], 6-199p. 16mo. Original dark cloth. 16 cm. Backstrip slightly faded and has a tiny chip at top. Contents have mostly moderate foxing (heaviest on endpapers and first several leaves). Isaacs spent 20 years at sea (probably from 1795..... More