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Adobe PDF File BOOK REVIEWS Dean King with John Hattendorf and J. Worth series represents genre writing of a very high Estes. A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Compan• order; the books are superbly researched histori• ion for Patrick O 'Brian's Seafaring Tales New cal novels. But O'Brian also presides over an York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995. 413 pp., extended English comedy of manners. In addi• illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, selected tion, he offers an extraordinary social portrait of bibliography. US $14, Cdn $20, paper; ISBN 0- life at sea wrapped in the quasi-Medieval lan• 8050-3816-7. guage of the maritime world including the special language of the Royal Navy. He also I confess that I am a lubber. I am one of those revels in the arcana of eighteenth-century readers of historical sea fiction who is so poorly science, especially botany and medicine, the acquainted with the duties of seamen and the everyday worlds of deference and gentility, at way of a sailing ship as ever to remain a waist- least as far as it prevailed in the navy, of card er. I am also a great fan of Patrick O'Brian's games and honour of religious belief, and of wonderful series of novels concerning the harsh food and culinary art. King's book is a great courageous world of the Royal Navy during the help to those who, like Maturin himself, make Napoleonic Wars and the relations between Cap• groping attempts to learn the difference between tain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his a slab-line and a selvagee, or want to know the particular friend, Stephen Maturin. Aubrey is as difference between a linctus and a lithotomy. brave as a lion afloat but he is a lost lamb How is Aubrey's favourite dish of soused hog's ashore, while Maturin, ostensibly a naval sur• face prepared? What ingredients go into figgy- geon, is also a disillusioned Irish revolutionary, dowdy or sea pie? With King at hand we quick• a natural scientist, physician, and secret agent of ly discover why main topsail yards may become the Admiralty. They met in 1800 and the ac• sprung if the fishes are ill-coaked and the differ• count of that fortuitous encounter first appeared ence between furling topsails in a bunt or in a in 1970. Since then and 5,000 pages later body — "smooth enough for a royal review." O'Brian has written the longest fictional account The inclusion of two brief essays on the of male bonding in English literature (the Hardy history of the Royal Navy and the state of Boys excepted). Dean King is to be heartily medicine during the period, maps, and ship congratulated for doing what I and a host of diagrams is helpful if not essential but the readers have only talked of doing. With seven• presence of very ordinary illustrations and teen books published to date, the Lexicon and numerous place names in the Lexicon is ques• Companion to O'Brian's series fills a real need. tionable. That the compiler thought the latter Like most lubbers, I pounced on O'Brian's necessary bespeaks his perception of an appal• novels as soon as I grasped that the series was ling ignorance of geography among his potential not a second-rate reprise of the Hornblower audience. Would any reader so "geographically books. I read the first three at breakneck pace, challenged" read one of O'Brian's novels? A and not least among the joys of discovery was revised edition might get rid of the portraits and the realization that they are much more than most if not all place names in order to find swashbuckling sea yarns. After the characters more space for such current absentees as "bitch- and the action settled on me I wanted to know adey pawdle" and "blotted meat," or such obvi• the meaning of everything. The Aubrey/Maturin ous terms as brigantine as well as brig, and 69 70 The Northern Mariner bentinck shrouds along with Bentincks. Old ten different writers, bringing to light the Atlan• Jarvie ought to be included among the nick• tic provinces' and Newfoundland's contribution names of Sir John Jervis. What are the white to what Bell calls "the golden age of the Atlan• lapels that poor Tom Pullings didn't receive? It tic sea story." (p. 13) Bell avoids narrowing his is fine to identify Gabriel Snodgrass as a pro• regional perspective by ignoring provincial gressive ship designer, but what are Snodgrass' boundaries and arranging the stories chronologi• diagonal braces? Robert's iron-plate knees can cally according to original publication date, be worked out, but why exclude Roberts and in• starting in 1903 with "The Strength of Men" by clude Snodgrass? Are catharpings the same as Norman Duncan and ending in 1928 with Arthur cat harpins? and what are cross-catted harpins? Hunt Chute's "The 'Bluenose Bucko'." This If the first futtock is that piece of timber form• arrangement highlights the popularity of the ing the rib of a ship nearest the keel, what are genre within the periodical literature of its time, ground futtocks? A host of interesting questions and the diversity of writers working within the and intriguing terms awaits the reviser whose genre, some whose fame as chroniclers of the readers are probably already familiar with the sea is well established, such as Colin McKay locations of Bengal, Malta, and Newfoundland. and Archibald MacMechan, others who are more In the meantime, this book is a must for obscure. Yet all the writers share a central ethos, O'Brian fans. one that has lost a measure of its credence with the technological advances of the twentieth James Pritchard century but that will be familiar to readers of Kingston, Ontario adventure fiction: in these stories, the sea chal• lenges and ennobles the men who make their John Bell (ed.). Atlantic Sea Stories. Lawrence- livings upon it. This idea is both a commonplace town Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1995. 222 and romantic, but a number of the writers pp., further readings. $15.95, paper; ISBN 0- employ touches of hard-edged realism, accurate 919001-91-2. maritime detail and humour which make readers feel the extent to which the commonplace has its Between 1900 and 1930, sea stories were among basis in the truth of experience. the most popular fiction published in the month• Many of the stories are skilfully crafted lies and pulp magazines of North America. adventures concerning shipwrecks and piracies Readers of McClure's, Adventure and The that offer readers the excitement of a voyage Canadian Magazine were treated to stories about into bygone days. Stories by Wilfred Grenfell, the North Atlantic region which, while largely Duncan, MacMechan and McKay all portray melodramatic adventure tales, offered documen• nautical disasters in which their characters' wills tary details of life in the Atlantic provinces and to survive are tested in the face of the grim and Newfoundland. Many of the writers of these indomitable power of the sea. McKay's "The tales have been largely obscured by time and Wreck of the Cod Seeker" stands out among neglect, and little of their sea fiction has been these, detailing his young hero's harrowing, republished in recent years. Atlantic Sea Stories claustrophobic predicament trapped within the convincingly presents these writers as part of a capsized Codseeker, adding an original and lost tradition in Canadian literary history, and memorable twist to an oft-told tale. Other collects a group of stories focused on the activ• adventure stories, such as Frederick Wallace's ities and attitudes of men at sea that reveals the St. Pierre rum smuggling yarn "Running A textures of life in the Atlantic region at the turn Cargo," and W. Albert Hickman's Gulf of St. of the twentieth century. The stories present Lawrence racing tale "The Gooseander," recount readers with some fanciful, some mundane, but the daring escapades of wily schooner captains persistently vivid glimpses of the experiences of hoodwinking their social betters and flouting fishermen, sealers, schoonermen, smugglers and authority. In a more subtle vein, Theodore G. pirates during the waning days of the age of sail. Roberts' "A Complete Rest" offers an ironic John Bell has carefully selected and edited anecdote that reveals a mainlander's frustrated eight stories and two excerpts from novels by bemusement in the face of the stoical resilience Book Reviews 71 of Newfoundland fishermen. In addition to these Society of Canada in March 1995. The four stories, Bell has included two excerpts from problems seeking a solution in this pamphlet novels that stand on their own and fit snugly are: shipbuilding and ship repair; the difficulties into the anthology, a chapter from Frank Parker in integrating coastal management beyond Day's Rockbound, a beautifully modulated national boundaries; salmon fishing; and national realist account of Lunenburg fishing life, and defence. Although by no means uniquely West three chapters from Erie Spencer's Yo-Ho-Ho!, Coast problems, these are dealt with purely in a tale reminiscent of Stevenson about a young their Pacific Coast context. Brief historical boy's life among modern day pirates. Bell ends comments are included in each section, but a the anthology with Chute's rousing "The 'Blue- comparison with other locations might have nose Bucko'," which brings to light a forgotten been helpful, as many of these problems have talent who died in his prime in 1929. A funny, received at least partial solutions elsewhere — endearing, romantic adventure yarn that recounts and this little work is light on solutions.
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