{"product_id":"recollections-of-a-sea-life-robert-campbell-9798989930814","title":"Recollections of a Sea Life by a Midshipman of the Last Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eReminiscences written by a naval officer on half-pay, and originally published in the United Service Journal in 1831 and 1832. They begin with his first appointment as midshipman in 1795, and carry forward as far as 1808. These memoirs include ship-wreck and mutiny off Anticosti Island at the entrance to the St. Lawrence River; the mutiny at Spithead, with many admiring words for the leader of that mutiny, Valentine Joyce; the capture of several French ships; the destruction of the Sewolad by the Implacable and the Centaur; voyages to the East Indies, and the tedium of life blockading the French.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampbell died before he was able to complete these memoirs. When the editors of the \u003cem\u003eUnited Service Journal \u003c\/em\u003eannounced his death to their readers, they wrote about his series that \"we are satisfied that no person could have perused the articles in question, without feeling that they were in the hands of an officer of talent and experience, and one possessed of excellent taste, judgement, and right feeling in all matters, private or professional.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have not previously been published in book form. They provide another view of the life described in Frederick Marryat's nautical novels and Basil Hall's autobiographical writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798989930814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pagesofpages.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Robert Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852427964671,"sku":"9798989930814","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/recollections-of-a-sea-life-robert-campbell-9798989930814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}