My Brigantine
- Length
- 19 min
- Chapters
- 15
- Language
- English
- First published
- 1904
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of My Brigantine by James Fenimore Cooper.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 26, 2021.
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After a stint on a commercial voyage, James Fenimore Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. Cooper, beloved though he is as a novelist, hasn't drawn much attention for his poetry. Here is one of his pieces expressing his appreciation for a beautiful ship, taken from his 1830 novel "The Water-Witch". - Summary by TriciaG
Chapters
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