“Then why,” said he, “don’t you chuck it?”   What, escape? I had never thought of that. It is the last solution which would have occurred to me concerning the problem of captivity. It is a credit to you and to me that we do not think of our chains so disrespectfully as to regard them as anything but necessary and indispensable, though sometimes, sore and irritated, we may bite at them. As if servitude fell to our portion like squints, parents poor in spirit, green fly, reverence for our social superiors, and the other consignments from the stars. How should we live if not in bonds? I have never tried. I do not remember, in all the even and respectable history of my family, that it has ever been tried. The habit of obedience, like our family habit of noses, is bred in the bone. The most we have ever done is to shake our fists at destiny; and I have done most of that.   “Give it up,” said the Skipper, “and come with me.”   With a sad smile I lifted my foot heavily and showed him what had me round the ankle. “Poo,” he said. “You could berth with the second mate. There’s room there.

Sea and the Jungle

Tomlinson, H. M.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Putnam~trade

The Sea and the Jungle

Literary

Signet Classics

"Suppose you were a quiet, respectable, sedentary business or professional man, and the captain of a tramp steamer bound to South America and up the Amazon suddenly dropped into your peaceful office, invited you to go along with him, got your acceptance by a clever trick, and had you at sea before you could stop to think — wouldn't you expect to find 'something doing'?" Thus begins this classic of travel literature, in which a London journalist sets sail for Brazil and traverses 2,000 miles of wilderness. Part diary and part adventure story, H. M. Tomlinson's eloquent and hauntingly poetic account of his first ocean voyage also constitutes a report on the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. Originally published in 1912, Tomlinson's travelogue was hailed decades later as "one of the few level-headed works in the literature of this region" by naturalist Peter Matthiessen, who pronounced it "accurate and difficult to improve upon."

The Sea and the Jungle: An Englishman in Amazonia

Travel

South America

Dover Publications

Old Junk (1918)

Classics

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

1930. Volume II of II. Some of the authors whose stories were selected for this work include: Hans Christian Andersen, Giovanni Boccaccio, Winston Churchill, Joseph Conrad, Daniel DeFoe, Anatole France, Victor Hugo, Selma Lagerlof, Basil Lubbock, John Masefield, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Felix Riesenberg, Morley Roberts, Jonathan Swift, and H.G. Wells. Additionally, the volume includes real-life episodes from these countries: Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Arabia, Persia, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, United States, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Japan. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Volume 1 ISBN 0766197328.

Great Sea Stories of All Nations

Short Stories & Anthologies

Kessinger Pub Co

Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a lighthearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. First published in 1912, The Sea and the Jungle remains one of the most popular accounts of a traveler's experience in Amazonia. As Peter Matthiessen observed fifty years later, " The Sea and the Jungle is one of the few level-headed works in the literature of this region. . . . accurate and difficult to improve upon."

The sea and the jungle (Time reading program special edition)

Time-Life-Books

Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a lighthearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. First published in 1912, The Sea and the Jungle remains one of the most popular accounts of a traveler's experience in Amazonia. As Peter Matthiessen observed fifty years later, " The Sea and the Jungle is one of the few level-headed works in the literature of this region. . . . accurate and difficult to improve upon."

The Sea and the Jungle (Marlboro Travel)

Marlboro Press

Stories of the sea collected from around the world. Authors include Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, and Victor Hugo.

Great Sea Stories of the World

Smithmark Pub.

Gallion's Reach

Contemporary

Academy Chicago Pub

The sea and the jungle by H. M Tomlinson (1971-05-03)

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