The Young Sailor; or the sea-life of Tom Bowline
Publisher
Kiggins & Kellog
Datec 1840
Object number00037546
NameBook
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 115 x 75 mm, 5 mm, 0.02 kg
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection
Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
DescriptionA chapbook titled 'The Young Sailor or the Sea-life of Tom Bowline'.
New York, USA: Kiggins & Kellog Publishers. c 1840.HistoryChapbook tale of young Tom, who is drawn to the sea, and sails on the ship GODOLPHIN under his uncle Mason the Captain to the East Indies. They arrive in China and set sail for New South Wales, but are shipwrecked en route, and after a raft voyage reach Banguay, a small island north of Borneo. They befriend some Malays, but are attacked by another tribe, and imprisoned ‘in cruel slavery’. An escape sees Tom and his uncle flee their captors, and they find a friendly ship to sail them home.
