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PRENTICE MULFORD'S STORY: Life by Land and Sea
by Prentice Mulford
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| Editorial Review |
| 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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| Product Details |
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- ISBN-10: 1-60206-168-8
- ISBN-13: 978-1-60206-168-2
- Amazon.com Sales Rank #5863759
- Published on: March 15, 2007
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 252 pages
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