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A flick of sunshine, the remarkable shipwrecked, marooned, maritime adventures, and tragic fate of an American original, Frederic B. Hill and Alexander Jackson Hill

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individual biography

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non fiction

A flick of sunshine

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Frederic B. Hill and Alexander Jackson Hill

the remarkable shipwrecked, marooned, maritime adventures, and tragic fate of an American original

"The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in Maine and his diary offer a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity, no small ambition, and that most admirable of traits, an abiding sense of humor"--, Provided by publisher

Ujae -- City of ships -- "I wondered where the captain was?" -- "The large vessel" -- Rainier -- Knocked in the head -- A splendid run -- An oasis of the southern Pacific -- "Breakers ahead" -- Among "savages" -- fear and reassurance -- Building a schooner -- Jaluit -- and back -- Ujae -- and back to Jaluit -- "Can't kill Will!" -- Flat on my back -- The bloodiest ship afloat -- Salmon, glaciers, and grand sights -- "I could almost imagine I was out there" -- Prize master -- "The ways and means of the world" -- George Spencer Hinsdale -- "A good sensible girl" -- California and Drumm Streets -- Homecoming -- Epilogue: Will Jackson Day