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"The book ""Confessions of a Tradesman"" by way of Frank T. Bullen is an exciting look into his lifestyles as a sailor and a shop owner. After Bullen's book got here out in 1904, people may want to examine approximately his lifestyles at sea within the past due 1800s from his very own point of view. It includes factors of adventure, reflection, and beneficial facts about unique skills. Bullen is a British author and marine biologist who talks about how he went from operating as a butcher to turning into a sailor. He writes in a lively way approximately the issues and successes he faced along the way. The tale is full of adventures at sea that display how tough the situations are, how first-rate the sailors are, and how random existence is out at sea. Bullen not simplest writes about the interesting matters that happened to him even as he became journeying in ""Confessions of a Tradesman,"" but he also thinks approximately larger ideas, like how sturdy people are and the way essential it is to follow your desires. If you are interested by maritime records or the existence of an employee who became a sailor, this book is worth analyzing because it has a unique mix of private tales and useful facts about the jobs and roles of the time."

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"The British author Frank Thomas Bullen was born on April 5, 1857, in Paddington, London. He died on March 1, 1915. Bullen's parents were poor, and he went to a dame school and Westbourne school in Paddington for a few years. His aunt, who was watching over him, died when he was nine years old. After that, he quit school and got a job as an errand boy. In 1869, he went to sea and traveled all over the world in a number of roles, such as second mate on the Harbinger and chief mate on the Day Dawn, working for Capt. John R. H. Ward jun. when the Day Dawn lost its mast and became disabled in 1879. He spent 15 years of his life at sea, starting when he was only 12 years old. He later wrote about the hard times he went through: ""I was beaten by a black boy as big as myself, and only a Frenchman stepped in to help me."" In those days, boys on Geordie colliers or East Coast fishing smacks were often beaten until they went crazy and jumped overboard, or they were killed in the most brutal way possible. If they didn't come back, all that was needed was a line in the log saying that they had been washed or had fallen overboard."

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