The Cradle of the Deep

Joan Lowell

• Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
• eBook ISBN:
  9781774649855
• Edition: 0

First published in 1929, public domain. A rip-roaring, sensational memoir of a young girl growing up on a schooner with her hearty sea captain father and a crew of salty sailors and the incredible and death-defying adventures she had traveling the world. Except... none of it was true! But still very realistic and believable and a uniquely amazing adventure story read!

Table of contents

• 1. “I spit a curve in the wind”
• 2. In which an alarm clock and some dried apricots are exchanged with natives for a nurse for me. The ship becomes my cradle
• 3. “A ship is called a ‘she’ because her riggin’ costs more than her hull.”—Stitches.
• 4. In which I learn that young ladies must not take baths in gentlemen’s drinking water
• 5. Perfume on the cook’s feet and hair on my chest.—What of it?
• 6. A dead fish and a squarehead’s kiss
• 7. A runaway sea horse
• 8. We catch a female shark and I learn about women from her—
• 9. In which I learn to take a joke. Hoping you may do the same
• 10. A bucko Captain and his Bible chart for me the mysteries of sex
• 11. “The Sea gives up its dead”
• 12. A cursing contest and a hangman’s noose
• 13. Ideas about Women
• 14. I find navigating on shore full of shoals
• 15. From the region of floating mountains of ice to the Island of White Natives
• 16. The clouds came down and the sea reached up to meet them and out of their travail a sea monster was born!
• 17. Strip poker and female struck—which of course have nothing to do with each other
• 18. A shanghaied crew and scurvy are poor bunkmates in a White Squall
• 19. The Dance of the Virgins on Atafu
• 20. A Love Story—which is an end and not a beginning
• 21.