Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea

Restless and finding no available vocation satisfactory a Northeastern man succumbs to the call of the ocean and leaves land behind with a merchant ship. He lands in San Francisco vowing to go where the day-or the sea-takes him. He has a go at cooking rides a whaling ship prospects for gold runs a schoolhouse and tries his hand at politicking. All throughout this tale of his though Prentice Mulford shows what he truly is: a gifted storyteller. Rich with humor and nuance this tour of his life takes you away with all the enthusiasm of a boy who ships to sea with the merchant marines searching for his destiny. American author PRENTICE MULFORD (1834-1891) is one of the oddest fixtures of 19th-century literature. After moving for years in the literary and Bohemian sets of San Francisco in the 1860s as a writer of humorous short stories he lived as a hermit in New Jersey where he wrote the books of modern spirituality that made him a pioneer of modern self-help philosophies including Thoughts Are Things and The God in You.