About This Book
The narrator offers a candid first-person memoir of youthful wandering, describing life among docks and cabins, risky small-boat exploits, enlistment in traveling minstrel companies, and a thrifty tour of Europe. Vivid episodes show the practical hardships of itinerant stage life, episodes of scarcity and narrow escape, the social relations and disputes within performing troupes, and the resourcefulness required to travel on a lean budget. The account traces how repeated adventures and reverses shaped the narrator's habits and understanding during his early years.
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