A Mariner's Sketches by Nathaniel Ames

Published in 1830, this book is a personal account of life at sea and the early 19th-century maritime world by Nathaniel Ames (1796–1835), an American author of several books. Ames started his 12-year sea career at the age of 19 as a bluejacket (an enlisted man in the navy). This digital copy is courtesy of the University of California, San Diego. (8 MiB, PDF, 324 pages)

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