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Resumen de Barcos perdidos y mares solitarios
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You will enjoy this if you love true adventure at sea, old ship journals, pirates and castaways, and stories of ordinary sailors who invent their way out of impossible trouble.
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Seven crew members survive the wreck of a brig, and their captain builds a still from a tea-kettle and a pistol barrel. Ralph Delahaye Paine gathers true sea narratives like this one in the seventeen chapters of Lost Ships and Lonely Seas. Wrecks, pirates, mutineers, castaways and lost expeditions fill its chapters, drawn from old accounts and told with a dry humor. You meet the Brig Polly first, and her story shows the courage that runs through the whole book.
En este resumen
- 1A wrecked brig drifts for six monthsFree
- 2A pirate crew meets a kind-hearted Scot
- 3Panic and bad command doom the Medusa raft
- 4Shipwreck on Inaccessible Island divides rank from sailors
- 5A chief mate fights his way home from Celebes
- 6Captain Paddock endures slavery on the Barbary coast
- 7Bligh sails an open boat four thousand miles
- 8Lost frigates and a cursed ship reward the stubborn
- 9A shipwrecked crew finds a king who teaches them
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A wrecked brig drifts for six months
A midnight storm knocks the Polly onto her side less than a week into her voyage. She sails from Boston toward Santa Cruz in late 1811 with timber and salt meat aboard. The sailors cut the masts free and bring the hull upright again. Two passengers are lost, and the hulk drifts out into the open Atlantic.
Captain Cazneau joins an iron tea-kettle, a pot and a pistol barrel into a crude still. Steam condenses into a trickle of fresh water, enough for a few small glasses a day. The cook Moho starts a fire by rubbing sticks, and later the men fish in the Sargasso Sea with hooks hammered from nails.
One by one the others die. After 192 days, Cazneau and the seaman Samuel Badger are lifted aboard the Fame of Hull off the Canary Islands. Paine suggests that routine and invention keep a mind steady when little else is left.
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Questions about Barcos perdidos y mares solitarios
What is Lost Ships and Lonely Seas about?
Its seventeen chapters collect true accounts of shipwreck, piracy, mutiny and castaway survival, drawn from old sea journals. The narratives follow ships and crews, from the brig Polly to the Bounty, the Wager and the Antelope.
Are the stories in Lost Ships and Lonely Seas true?
Paine presents them as true accounts, based on journals, letters and published narratives by the people involved, such as Captain Lincoln, Bligh, Byron and Captain Deane. They date mostly from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
Who was Captain Cazneau of the brig Polly?
He is the master of the Polly, a Boston brig wrecked in 1811. He builds a still from a tea-kettle and a pistol barrel and survives 192 days adrift with only one seaman at the end.
Do I need to read the chapters in order?
No. Many chapters can be read on their own, though the Wager narrative continues across two chapters. You can start with whichever one catches your eye, such as the Bounty, the Wager or the Pelew Islands.
What is the main message of the book?
Paine argues that sailors' courage, loyalty and ingenuity matter more than the ships they sail. Chapter after chapter, leadership and decency shape the sailors' chances, and he closes the Polly chapter with a Conrad line that puts the men before their ships.