Bear of the Sea

by Garland, Joseph E.

• ISBN13: 9781889833231
• ISBN10: 1889833231
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Commonwealth Editions

Summary

The true story of a legendary sea captain, Jim Pattillo, from Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
The Great Scotsman Tames the Wilderness and Is Captured by the Widow Bartlet	3	(10)
A Dead Horse for a Set of Books	13	(13)
Lily of the Valley and Bear of the Sea	26	(11)
A Chapter of Collisions	37	(14)
More Collisions, Commencing with a Look at the Rogues' Hole	51	(15)
In Which Jim Burns His Bridges	66	(11)
Pursuer and Pursued	77	(9)
At Cape Ann Jim Finds His Fame Has Gone Ahead	86	(11)
Which Winds up in a Holiday Chowder at Eastern Point	97	(10)
Introducing Jim to Georges Bank and Some of Its Denizens	107	(11)
In Which Jim Is Initiated into the Occult Art of Mackereling	118	(13)
The Pearl of Great Price	131	(11)
The Adventure of the Tiger: Going Up	142	(14)
The Adventure of the Tiger: Coming Back	156	(17)
Jim Becomes a Whitewashed Yankee	173	(12)
Damn You! Won't You Heave To?	185	(14)
Whatsoever a Man Soweth...	199	(7)
In Which Captain Pattillo Does Sam Cunard a Kindness	206	(6)
Wherein Is Buried a Sad Note	212	(8)
A Yankee, and a Baptist in the Bargain	220	(16)
Captain Darby Meets His Match	236	(11)
Saved	247	(10)
The Yankee Gale	257	(14)
Which Touches on This and That, Concluding with a Personal Matter	271	(11)
They Sailed Away	282	(7)
In Which Jim Is Smitten with the Gold Fever, and How He Is Cured	289	(9)
Fire	298	(11)
For Fifty Years I Ploughed the Sea	309	(13)
And Now I Plough the Land	322	(12)
Had a First-Rate Time	334	(8)
Afterthoughts	342	(3)
Sources	345	(4)
Bibliography	349