1852 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS AT SEA. Rare American Variant of Bunyan for Seamen. Whaling - Moby Dick Interest. Ephemera *Sermon of Azel Backus on

*Sermon of Azel Backus on the Ordination of John B

but attractive and appropriate

and was the very first publication of its kind

Baptist minister

Suited to Children

1852 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS AT SEA. Rare American Variant of Bunyan for Seamen. Whaling - Moby Dick Interest. Ephemera *Sermon of Azel Backus onA 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