A Sailor of Fortune: Personal Memoirs of Captain B. S. Osbon (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Paine, Albert Bigelow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331988918 ISBN 13: 9781331988915

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Sailor of Fortune: Personal Memoirs of Captain B. S. Osbon In preparing these chapters I have endeavoured faithfully to preserve certain annals of a remarkable life. It has been my privilege to set them down from the lips of the narrator, only amplifying from such reports and records as would complete the pictures and give them connection and adequate setting. In so far as possible the effort has been to retain the phraseology in which the stories were told to me, though no literary skill of mine could adequately reproduce the inimitable manner of the telling - the modulation of speech, the play of countenance, the subtle humour that was as often a matter of the inflection as of the word. These things the reader will have to imagine, each in his own way. The book is history - some of it unwritten history heretofore - of our own land. Its subject has helped to make that history, and in thus allowing it to be recorded has added a further service to the nation he has served so faithfully and well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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About the Author:

Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 – 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when one year old. From early childhood until early adulthood, Paine lived in the village of Xenia in southern Illinois; here he received his schooling. At the age of twenty, he moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine sold out in 1895 to become a full-time writer, moving to New York. He spent most of his life in Europe, including France where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. This work was so well received in France that he was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur by the French government. Paine was married to Dora and had three daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331988918
• ISBN 13: 9781331988915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348