Bartlett and the Ice Voyage by Odo Hirsch

Author:Odo Hirsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2015-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

The captain’s cabin was at the back of the Bey, with windows of thick glass that looked out over the rudder and the churning wake in the sea. In one corner there was a simple sailor’s hammock, where Captain Wrick slept. Near the windows there was a table covered in maps and sea charts, as well as the compass, telescope, sextant and other instruments that a captain requires. A lantern hung from a beam above the table, and the whole place smelled of beeswax and warm tobacco from the pipe that Captain Wrick smoked. He smoked it as he sat with Bartlett at the table for hours and hours on the six-week journey to the ice seas, trying to work out how to tow an iceberg. Jacques le Grand joined them whenever he wasn’t feeling too seasick, and sometimes the First Mate, Michael, came in to add his ideas, leaving the second mate to steer the ship.

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