by Birger Bech
A thoroughly charming little book. Bech's story is not of battling the elements around the world, nor the tale of many years as a foc'sle hand. Rather, he shipped out as a cabin boy on a Danish vessel and returned to meet a young lady and marry her. Quite a simple tale but well told and charming. As he says; "At last my longing to see the world became intense. After four years' school life, I wrote to my father, imploring him to take me out of college and let me go to sea. At first he remonstrated and begged me to stay, but finally he saw it was of no use. . . I was to go to Copenhagen in Denmark, where one of my father's friends had command of a vessel belonging to the king of Denmark, and which, along with ten others, went on their yearly summer trip to Greenland, supplying the Esquimeaux with provisions, and taking back with them a cargo of oil." First published in 1886.
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