The Sandman: His Sea Stories (Yesterday's Classics) - Softcover

Hopkins, William J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599153033 ISBN 13: 9781599153032

Publisher: Yesterday's Classics, 2009

Synopsis

Twenty-one more stories about the sailing ship "Industry" and the lads who sailed on it, including many exciting adventures such as their encounters with porpoises, flying fish, and sharks. Sequel to THE SANDMAN: His Ship Stories by the same author. Third volume in a series of a stories created by a father to induce a certain little boy to go to sleep. For nearly three years his one listener heard them repeated many times, and his interest never flagged. As the first stories told, the farm stories, slowly grew in number, eventually to fill two volumes, they entirely displaced other stories, and that farm became as real in the mind of his listener as it was in fact when little John was driving the cows or planting the corn in the early part of the nineteenth century. Later came two more volumes about a ship and its voyages at sea, of which this volume is the latter, and a final volume on house building. Ideal for ages 7 to 9.

About this title

About the Author:

William Hopkins FRS (2 February 1793 – 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the "senior-wrangler maker." He also made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1599153033
• ISBN 13: 9781599153032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Illustrator: Horne Diantha W