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WHEN GOD WAS AN ATHEIST SAILOR eniones MiMim Child}loot IQ02-IQIO BURGESS COGILL ...^«^ \ ftWK.ofCtprh I F-fr1.* % (Ofcj 1.So.fU, t - - .... /• (Cto; • --. Conceptim \ " - -• / \ \ ( . k FPT ISBN 0-3T3-0271b-3 >$17- c1Susa $24.95 CAN. Kirkus Reviews says: "The author ofthis utterly charming idyll was born September 5, 1902, on an ocean- going schooner becalmed in the mid- Pacific's doldrums. Commanded by her Danish-born father, the great sailing ship was the little girl's home until she was pipedashore toattend school in 1910. "Based in San Francisco, it had ports of call ranging from the Pacific Northwest down to Peru. Between and during com- mercial voyages, the square-rigged craftwas an enchanted world for [Burgess and her sister]. Amongotherpleasures, they watched flying fish play, romped on the quarterdeck, witnessed brawls among "crew members, studied natural maritime wildlife, reveled in ritesofpassage (as in firstcrossing theequa- tor), and enjoyed a warm domestic existence in thecaptain's well-appointedquarters.. . "The author recollects her father as a ...domineering presence who refused to ac- company his family to divine services; not until years later did she realize his muscular arms and chest bore a wealth of lusty tattoos. "Cogill evokes absorbing, human-scale aspectsoifin-de-siecleAmerica." The author ends her memoirs with a quietly moving scene describing the mys- (continuedonbackflap) JacketdesignbyDorothyWachtenheim Jacketphotographs courtesy oftheNational Maritime Museum,SanFrancisco. 1-90 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/whengodwasatheisOOcogi WHEN GOD WAS AN ATHEIST SAILOR WHEN GOD WAS AN ATHEIST SAILOR Burgess Cogill W W NORTON & COMPANY • • NEW YORK LONDON * Photograph on p. 79 courtesy ofthe Peabody Museum ofSalem. Photo- graphsonpp. 90, 154, 156,and 164courtesyoftheMuhlmanCollection, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. All other photographs courtesy ofthe San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Photo- graph on p. 141 courtesy oftheOlmsteadCollection, San Francisco Mar- itimeNational Historical Park. Copyright © 1990, 1985 byBurgessCogill All rightsreserved. Printedinthe UnitedStatesofAmerica. Thetextofthisbookiscomposedin 11/14 Monticello, with displaytypesetin StymieExtraBold. Compositionand manufacturingbyTheMaple-Vail Book ManufacturingGroup. Book design by B. Klein. First Edition LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Data Cogill,Burgess. When GodWasan Atheist Sailor: me—moriesofachildhoodatsea/ BurgessCogill. 1sted. — p. cm. 1. Cogill, Burgess Journeys. 2. Snow & Burgess (Schooner) 3. Seafaringlife. I. Title. G540.C6652 1990 9io.4'5—dci9 89-3033 ISBN D-3T3-DE71b-3 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10110 W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. 37Great Russell Street, London WCiB3NU 1234567890 To the memory ofmy father, with love and gratitude.

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