Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty. The first mate promptly nicknames him "Buttons" for the shiny ones on his impractical jacket. Redburn quickly grasps the workings of social relations aboard ship.

介质类型	图书 Paperback Book (平装胶订图书)
已发行	2017年2月14日
ISBN13	9781543112443
出版商	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
页数	342
商品尺寸	152 × 229 × 18 mm · 458 g
语言	英语