
At the Back of the World, Wanderings over Many Lands and Seas
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Excerpt: As far back as I can remember the sea had a strange fascination for me, and if, as is the custom with old people to ask a boy, however small, what he is going to be when he is a man, I invariably answered ?a sailor of course.? At school the lessons I liked best were geography, and the only books that interested me were those that told of travel in foreign lands. Born in Liverpool, that city by the sea, and living, for the first fourteen years of my life, within a mile of the docks, it was no wonder that I was passionately fond of the water, and all my spare time was spent at the docks talking to the sailors, amongst whom I had heaps of friends. The tales they told me of what they had seen in foreign lands, and the wonders of the deep made me long to grow up as quickly as possible, but it was not until I was fourteen that the opportunity came, and that in a curious way.
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- Intro
- At the Back
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I I Go To Sea
- CHAPTER II The Making of a Sailor
- CHAPTER III A Burning Ship
- CHAPTER IV New Friends
- CHAPTER V Stormy Weather
- CHAPTER VI The Southern Cross
- CHAPTER VII The Stone Begins to Roll
- CHAPTER VIII Various Kinds of Storms
- CHAPTER IX Christmas at Sea and George the Greek's Story
- CHAPTER X Rounding Cape Horn
- CHAPTER XI Callao and San Lorenzo
- CHAPTER XII The Capital of Peru
- CHAPTER XIII On the Oroya Railway
- CHAPTER XIV Life on the Andes
- CHAPTER XV The Cost of Liquor and My Return to Lima
- CHAPTER XVI I go Back to the Sea Again
- CHAPTER XVII "Eastward Ho!"
- CHAPTER XVIII Lost in the Bush
- CHAPTER XIX Life at Belmont-Sharks and Flying Foxes
- CHAPTER XX Snake Stories-Two Brave Girls
- CHAPTER XXI Widow Smith's Pig or "Barkis is Willin'"
- CHAPTER XXII A Dangerous Enterprise
- CHAPTER XXIII A Leaky Old Tub and Retribution or Villainy Rewarded
- CHAPTER XXIV Off to the Palmer Goldfields
- CHAPTER XXV We Return to Cooktown
- CHAPTER XXVI A Trip to the Cannibal Islands and Captain Brown's Story
- CHAPTER XXVII Homeward Bound
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