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This sensational tale from action-adventure master James Fenimore Cooper takes the form of the life story of a rugged old sailor, Miles Wallingford. As a youth, Miles, his brother, and their slave Neb ran away from the family home to become seamen, dashing the family's hopes that Miles will become a respectable lawyer. Veering wildly from calamities to courageous feats and back again, Afloat and Ashore is one sea tale you won't soon forget.
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by Cooper. Set in 1796-1804, it follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel is partially autobiographical, based on Cooper's own experiences as a sailor.
This sensational tale from action-adventure master James Fenimore Cooper takes the form of the life story of a rugged old sailor, Miles Wallingford. As a youth, Miles, his brother, and their slave Neb ran away from the family home to become seamen, dashing the family's hopes that Miles will become a respectable lawyer. Veering wildly from calamities to courageous feats and back again, Afloat and Ashore is one sea tale you won't soon forget.
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Miles Wallingford Jr. is son of wealthy New York landowners, who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. In "Afloat and Ashore" focus is on the challenging relationship between Miles and Neb, a runaway slave who stows away aboard the ship and only is left unpunished when Miles claims him as his own slave. The two become close allies aboard the ship, but the racial and power differences between Miles, who becomes a petty officer aboard the vessel, and Neb, who is confined to the role of regular seaman. A sequel "Miles Wallingford" continues to follow the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr, and his long-time friends Neb and Lucy Harding, and resolves many thematic and plot elements left unsettled in Afloat and Ashore. Novels are partially autobiographical, inspired by J. Fenimore Cooper's own experiences as a sailor. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Before embarking on his career as a writer, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
I was born in a valley not very remote from the sea. My father had been a sailor in youth, andsome of my earliest recollections are connected with the history of his adventures, and therecollections they excited. He had been a boy in the war of the revolution, and had seen someservice in the shipping of that period. Among other scenes he witnessed, he had been on board theTrumbull, in her action with the Watt-the hardest-fought naval combat of that war-and heparticularly delighted in relating its incidents. He had been wounded in the battle, and bore themarks of the injury, in a scar that slightly disfigured a face, that, without this blemish, would havebeen singularly handsome. My mother, after my poor father's death, always spoke of even this scaras a beauty spot. Agreeably to my own recollections, the mark scarcely deserved that commendation, as it gave one side of the face a grim and fierce appearance, particularly when its owner wasdispleased.My father died on the farm on which he was born, and which descended to him from his greatgrandfather, an English emigrant that had purchased it of the Dutch colonist who had originallycleared it from the woods. The place was called Clawbonny, which some said was good Dutchothers bad Dutch; and, now and then, a person ventured a conjecture that it might be Indian. Bonnyit was, in one sense at least, for a lovelier farm there is not on the whole of the wide surface of theEmpire State. What does not always happen in this wicked, world, it was as good as it washandsome. It consisted of three hundred and seventy-two acres of first-rate land, either arable, or ofrich river bottom in meadows, and of more than a hundred of rocky mountain side, that was verytolerably covered with wood. The first of our family who owned the place had built a substantialone-story stone house, that bears the date of 1707 on one of its gables; and to which each of hissuccessors had added a little, until the whole structure got to resemble a cluster of cottages throwntogether without the least attention to order or regularity. There were a porch, a front door, and alawn, however; the latter containing half a dozen acres of a soil as black as one's hat, and nourishingeight or ten elms that were scattered about, as if their seeds had been sown broad-cast. In additionto the trees, and a suitable garniture of shrubbery, this lawn was coated with a sward that, in theproper seasons, rivalled all I have read, or imagined, of the emerald and shorn slopes of the Swissvalleys
I was born in a valley not very remote from the sea. My father had been a sailor inyouth, and some of my earliest recollections are connected with the history of hisadventures, and the recollections they excited. He had been a boy in the war of therevolution, and had seen some service in the shipping of that period. Among otherscenes he witnessed, he had been on board the Trumbull, in her action with theWatt-the hardest-fought naval combat of that war-and he particularly delightedin relating its incidents. He had been wounded in the battle, and bore the marks ofthe injury, in a scar that slightly disfigured a face, that, without this blemish, wouldhave been singularly handsome. My mother, after my poor father's death, alwaysspoke of even this scar as a beauty spot. Agreeably to my own recollections, themark scarcely deserved that commendation, as it gave one side of the face a grimand fierce appearance, particularly when its owner was displeased.
Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1844. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold D. Langely called a "necessary" sequel Miles Wallingford, which resolves many thematic and plot elements. The novel is partially autobiographical, in part by Cooper's own experiences as a sailor, and is his first full-length novel to fully employ a first-person narrativeThematically, the novel focuses on the challenging relationship between Miles and Neb, a runaway slave who stows away aboard the ship and only is left unpunished when Miles claims him as his own slave. The two become close allies aboard the ship, but the racial and power differences between Miles, who becomes a petty officer aboard the vessel, and Neb, who is confined to the role of regular seaman
Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1844. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr. , the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents.[1] The novel ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold D. Langely called a "necessary" sequel Miles Wallingford, which resolves many thematic and plot elements.The novel is partially autobiographical, in part by Cooper's own experiences as a sailor, and is his first full-length novel to fully employ a first-person narrative
