TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,James Fenimore TI - Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale AV - PS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Sea stories KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Young men -- Fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Seafaring life -- Fiction KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction KW - Merchant mariners -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afloat_and_Ashore; Release date is 2005-08-01; Text file produced by Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreaders Team (www.pgdp.net) HTML file produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale" by James Fenimore Cooper is a nautical fiction novel published in 1844. Set in the early 1800s, it follows Miles Wallingford Jr., a wealthy New York landowner's son who goes to sea after his parents' death. Drawing on Cooper's own maritime experiences, the novel explores Miles's adventures and his complicated relationship with Neb, a runaway slave who becomes his companion aboard ship. The story ends abruptly, requiring a sequel to resolve its plot and themes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8647 ER -