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Restless and finding no available vocation satisfactory, a Northeastern man succumbs to the call of the ocean and leaves land behind with a merchant ship. He lands in San Francisco, vowing to go where the day-or the sea-takes him. He has a go at cooking, rides a whaling ship, prospects for gold, runs a schoolhouse, and tries his hand at politicking. All throughout this tale of his, though, Prentice Mulford shows what he truly is: a gifted storyteller. Rich with humor and nuance, this tour of his life takes you away with all the enthusiasm of a boy who ships to sea with the merchant marines, searching for his destiny. American author PRENTICE MULFORD (1834-1891) is one of the oddest fixtures of 19th-century literature. After moving for years in the literary and Bohemian sets of San Francisco in the 1860s as a writer of humorous short stories, he lived as a hermit in New Jersey, where he wrote the books of modern spirituality that made him a pioneer of modern self-help philosophies, including Thoughts Are Things and The God in You.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Memoirs

• Full title: Prentice Mulford's Story
• Subtitle: Life by Land and Sea
• Author: Prentice Mulford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• EAN: 9781602061682
• ISBN: 9781602061682
• ID: 08768481
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Weight: 334 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 215 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2007

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