Project Gutenberg
2014-07-24
Public domain in the USA.
220
Macy, William Hussey
1826
1891
Macy, W. H. (William Hussey)
Macy, Wm. H. (William Hussey)
There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa
Produced by Giovanni Fini andThe Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive)
"There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa" by William Hussey Macy is a nautical adventure narrative written in the late 19th century. This book presents a series of illustrated sketches based on real events from the author’s own experiences at sea, particularly in the whaling industry. The narrative introduces readers to the life of a young man who, eager for adventure and influenced by his study of seafaring tales, embarks on a whaling voyage aboard the Arethusa. At the start of the journey, the protagonist, a fresh-faced youth of eighteen, arrives in New York City and makes the decision to join a whaling expedition. He encounters a shipping agent, Mr. Ramsay, who presents the exhilarating life of a whaleman filled with potential adventure and financial reward. Upon boarding the Lydia Ann, the ship that will take him to Nantucket, he meets a colorful crew of fellow aspiring sailors, each with their own backgrounds and motivations. The opening chapters set the stage for the subsequent journey, shedding light on the initial excitement and challenges of life at sea, including youthful naivete, sea sickness, and the camaraderie among the crew as they prepare to set sail on their whaling adventure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46390/46390-h/images/cover.jpg
Reading ease score: 75.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
en
Whaling -- Fiction
Sea stories
PS
Text
Category: Adventure
Category: Novels
Category: American Literature
540146
2025-08-18T16:15:30.229584
text/html
525045
2024-10-24T09:19:58
text/html
399876
2025-08-18T16:15:36.963495
application/epub+zip
403992
2025-08-18T16:15:31.276491
application/epub+zip
285266
2025-08-18T16:15:30.774522
application/epub+zip
557678
2025-08-18T16:15:41.538519
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
506342
2025-08-18T16:15:36.391455
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
388661
2022-09-21T06:08:40.057837
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
495763
2025-08-18T16:15:29.602491
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
475837
2024-10-24T09:19:57
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
16663
2025-08-18T16:15:41.690450
application/rdf+xml
21250
2025-08-18T16:15:30.858488
image/jpeg
2843
2025-08-18T16:15:30.816524
image/jpeg
369949
2025-08-18T16:15:30.292546
application/octet-stream
application/zip
Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at
https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog