Name/Title
Romantic Story of David Robertson among the islands off and on the coast of MaineEntry/Object ID
2003.009.0003Scope and Content
Book by Capt. John Pendleton Farrow. This copy has a red cloth cover nicely tooled., 5"x7", 283 pp. The story of a farmer boy who left home and a too-demanding father, went to sea, acquired boat, went fishing and had great success with "an exuberant abundance of salmon" and mackerel in Penobscot Bay, took care of the elderly, saved souls from the Demon Rum, met the love of his life and lived happily ever after, we are to suppose.....a proper 1898 novel. Difficult to see if any of this is memoir, but many interesting descriptions of 19th c life around the Bay.