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From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

By William Gordon Burn Murdoch

2019-02-22 19:03:03

Excerpt.........Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven—when it is not blowing and black as—the ... Read more
Excerpt.........Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven—when it is not blowing and black as—the other place! A number of people said they liked it and asked me to write again; therefore these notes and sketches on a Journey to India and Burmah. They may not be so interesting as notes about Antarctic adventure and jolly old Shell Backs and South Spainers on a whaler; but one journal ought at least, to be a contrast to the other. The first, a voyage on a tiny wooden ship with a menu of salt beef, biscuit, and penguin, to unsailed seas and uninhabited ice-bound lands; the other, in a floating hotel, with complicated meals, and crowds of passengers, to a hot land with innumerable inhabitants. Less

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PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1721968039
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From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by William Gordon Burn Murdoch Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night...

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