1852 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS AT SEA. Rare American Variant of Bunyan for Seamen. Whaling - Moby Dick Interest. Ephemera A working early copy only

A working early copy only and as such affordably priced

Baptist minister

In this feast the dog is held sacred

for I might have understood some

more Whitefieldian / Edwardsian gathering

1852 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS AT SEA. Rare American Variant of Bunyan for Seamen. Whaling - Moby Dick Interest. Ephemera A working early copy onlyA rather scarce title by Henry T. Cheever, author of The Whale and His Captors and Life in the Sandwich Islands, in which he takes the the immortal tale of John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, and adapts it to seamen by making it a voyage across the ocean to the Heavenly City. It is difficult not to hear Melville's old Father Mapple thundering in its pages. The present work was actually written in 1851, the author perhaps oblivious or borrowing