The Cruise Of The Golden Wave

Excerpt from The Cruise of the Golden WaveI turned sharp round. One does not expect to hear one's name bawled out in such a manner when one is taking a walk along the quay of Victoria, hong-kong. Such occurrences happen too seldom ever to have any chance of becoming monotonous. So, as I say, I turned sharp round, and there I saw an old college chum of mine who, last time I saw him, six years ago, was on the point of going up for his final examination in medicine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

On Yacht Sailing is a book by Thomas Fleming Day. This edition provides a simple treatise for beginners concerning the art of handling small yachts and boats.

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