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A Flick of Sunshine - The Remarkable Shipwrecked, Marooned, Maritime Adventures, and Tragic Fate of an American Original (Hardcover)
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A Flick of Sunshine - The Remarkable Shipwrecked, Marooned, Maritime Adventures, and Tragic Fate of an American Original (Hardcover)
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The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an
intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in
19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of
the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and
imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson
survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being
washed overboard rounding Cape Horn and running down Alaskan
glaciers over a tragically shortened life that ended in a most
bizarre and pedestrian incident on the eve of realizing his life's
ambition: appointment as master of a ship. After nine months of
sometimes perilous life among natives in the South Sea islands in
1884, captured in chapters of a book he helped write, Jackson
served on a series of large ships and coastal schooners - all based
in the post-Gold Rush boomtown of San Francisco - that took him up
and down the west coast from Alaska to Mexico and to the four
corners of the earth. His faithful letters to his family in Maine
and a diary offer a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young
man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity,
no small ambition and that most admirable of traits, an abiding
sense of humor.
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