Wild Oats Sowings: Autobiography of an Adventurer (1836~1856)

Overview

The aim in life will correspond with the character and tastes of the individual. Many will desire to become rich, yet very few, comparatively speaking, will succeed; and not a few of those who reach the goal of their desires, will do so to the ruin of both soul and body; and "what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Many, again, will aspire to celebrity, fame; but none of this class may hope to reach the pinnacle to which their ambition spurs them. They may, it is true, follow in the track of their instructors, and enjoy for a brief space the éclat of the same class in which they themselves graduated; but it will be evanescent as the summer cloud, which dissolves and is lost for ever. Many, again, will become imbued with the spirit of adventure: these, for the most part, become mere rovers, without home, or any settled object in view. They are cosmopolitan; their home is the world.

S.W. Cushing was one of those citizens of the world. More educated than many young men who took to the sea, Cushing was able to return home in one piece and write about his incredibly adventurous life abroad.

On land and sea he risked life and limb and writes at times with hilarious hindsight and aplomb about the world that was opened before his eyes. War, imprisonment, exotic locales and exotic women all play a part in this incredible true tale.

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