Before the Wind Softcover - 2000
by Tyng, Charles
- Used
- Paperback
This memoir of an American sea captain's adventures from 1808-1833 has been hailed as a superb contribution to seafaring literature--one that "no admirer of Americana or sailing ships should miss" ("Atlantic Monthly"). Preface by William LaMoy of the Peabody Essex Museum. Afterward by Thomas Philbrick.
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Details
- Title Before the Wind
- Author Tyng, Charles
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used -
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin, New York
- Date 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # BIB286226
- ISBN 9780140291919 / 0140291911
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.02 x 0.54 in (19.56 x 12.75 x 1.37 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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