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This is a diary of my great-great-grandfather, Enoch Carter Cloud, who as a young man ran away to find adventure at sea. Thus begins the introduction by Cloud's great-great-granddaughter, Elizabeth McLean, to the personal log of a young sailor on a 19th-century whaling vessel. The author journeys around the world giving richly detailed narratives of encounters with native peoples in Portugal, Africa, New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and the West Indies. He describes a number of whale chases in vivid language, with a surprising note og anguish at the slaughter of the harpoon whales fighting for their lives in a sea of blood.
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In the middle of August, 1851, young Enoch Carter Cloud, of landlocked Columbus, Ohio, cast his fate literally to the winds and signed up to sail out of New Bedford on the whale ship "The Henry Kneeland". For nearly three years he kept a journal detailing the glory, hardships, and dangers of life at sea. Five generations of Cloud's descendants have reveled in this personal history, reading aloud from the manuscript; now, edited by the author's great-great-granddaughter, the story is told for the first time outside the family. The journey took Cloud around the world - from New England to Portugal, around Africa, to New Zealand and across the Pacific. Encounters with native peoples, mutinous crew members, and the elements are depicted in the peculiarly colorful and detailed language of the time. Cloud writes touchingly of his bouts with homesickness and "ship fever". Readers vicariously experience his awe and admiration for the ship's quarry in numerous accounts of whale chases, including the heroic, and ultimately failed, attempt of a mother whale to protect her calf from death.
About the Author
Enoch Carter Cloud ran away to sea at the age of 19 in 1851. He was born in Columbus, Ohio where he grew up with four sisters in a brick house on the corner of 33rd and Friend Streets.
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- PublisherMoyer Bell and its subsidiaries
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1559210796
- ISBN 13 9781559210799
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages381
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