Voyages Through Life: The Story of John Dunlop Allison

John Dunlop Allison was a mariner from the final era of sail into the early days of steam.

The hand-written account of his adventures was discovered in an attic in England a hundred years after he wrote it. His story describes extraordinary events, of wars and wives, of gold fever and greed, of death and disease, of storms and shipwrecks all over the world.

This is the authentic voice of a spirited and adventurous man, written as he was approaching "the allotted span of man, three score and t...