In the summer of 1850 Benjamin Eastman, a sixteen-year old boy from
New York City, is asked by his clergyman father to deliver a bundle
of books to cousins in St. Petersburg, Russia. It will be his first
time away from home. He boards the sailing vessel Chicora in
Boston, and on his first day at sea he opens a letter from his
mother in which are her prayers and hopes for her eldest son's safe
return. Benjamin records the details of the voyage in a journal,
which includes the ship's daily positions and weather. As the ship
enters European waters there is much to see- islands, headlands,
castles, ships of all descriptions, and lighthouses. Finally,
Benjamin encounters the bewildering formalities faced by foreigners
entering Imperial Russia. The book includes a letter Benjamin
Eastman wrote in 1856 to his younger brother in New York. In it he
describes a voyage in the ship Nazarene in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence.
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