03318cam a2200349 i 4500 548917143 TxAuBib 20220310120000.0 211112s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021048375 9781493060818 HRD 31.95 1493060813 HRD 31.95 TxAuBib rda Hill, Frederic B. Flick of sunshine. A flick of sunshine [BOOK] : the remarkable shipwrecked, marooned, maritime adventures, and tragic fate of an American original / Frederic B. Hill and Alexander Jackson Hill. Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2022] xii, 177 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Ujae -- City of ships -- "I wondered where the captain was?" -- "The large vessel" - Rainier -- Knocked in the head -- A splendid run -- An oasis of the southern Pacific -- "Breakers ahead" -- Among "savages" - fear and reassurance -- Building a schooner-- Jaluit - and back -- Ujae - and back to Jaluit -- "Can't kill Will!" -- Flat on my back -- The bloodiest ship afloat -- Salmon, glaciers, and grand sights -- "I could almost imagine I was out there" -- Prize master -- "The ways and means of the world"-- George Spencer Hinsdale -- "A good sensible girl" -- California and Drumm Streets -- Homecoming -- Epilogue: Will Jackson Day. The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn and running down Alaskan glaciers over a tragically shortened life that ended in a most bizarre and pedestrian incident on the eve of realizing his life’s ambition: appointment as master of a ship. After nine months of sometimes perilous life among natives in the South Sea islands in 1884, captured in chapters of a book he helped write, Jackson served on a series of large ships and coastal schooners – all based in the post-Gold Rush boomtown of San Francisco – that took him up and down the west coast from Alaska to Mexico and to the four corners of the earth. His faithful letters to his family in Maine and a diary provide a colorful background for a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity, no small ambition and that most admirable of traits, an abiding sense of humor. Provided by publisher. 20220310. Jackson, Will Richard Willis 1861-1889. Rainier (Ship : 1883-1884.) Shipwrecks Marshall Islands Ujae Atoll. Sailors United States Biography. Shipwreck victims United States Biography. Bath (Me) Biography. Hill, Alexander Jackson, 1977-, author.