"failed to save has instead blessed and saved him. As he recalls Billy's blessing, he realises he has discovered genuine goodness and can be at peace with himself. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Billy Budd (opera) Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the English novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel ""Billy Budd"" by Herman Melville. Originally in four acts, it was first performed at the Royal Opera House, London, on 1 December 1951; it was later revised as a two-act opera with a prologue and an epilogue."
"lost at sea during action in the American Revolutionary War, on 13 January 1781. Apphia Hyde Cardell later remarried Benjamin Walworth and raised a second family. Reuben H. Walworth was a child of Benjamin Walworth and Apphia Hyde Cardell Walworth, and a half brother of William S. Cardell. William Cardell William S. Cardell (1780–1828) was an early American fiction writer and scholar. He is best remembered for his sea stories for boys, which combined adventure tales with moral instruction. ""The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy"" (1824) was the most famous of these; others were ""Jack Halyard and Ishmael"
"author of ""Moby-Dick"", enlisted as an ordinary seaman on board ""United States"" at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 17 August 1843. His novel ""White-Jacket"", published in 1850, is a fictionalized account of his experiences on board and is highly critical of the captain of the ""United States"" and of naval customs in general. Melville observed that Armstrong often appeared on deck intoxicated. From Hawaii, ""United States"" (which Melville refers to as USS ""Neversink"") proceeded to the Marquesas Islands and lost a man overboard en route. From the Marquesas she visited Valparaiso, Chile; Lima and Callao in Peru. ""United States"" remained at Callao"
"school and boarding house run primarily by Quaker women. There he received a classical education and became a proficient and prolific writer, a talent which would serve him for the rest of his life. From 1850 to 1852 he was indentured out of the Asylum to work for an Albert Westlake. As he approached adulthood he made the decision to hide his past as a slave, and began telling people he was born free in Troy, New York. In 1856, at the age of 18, he took a job on board a whaling ship out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Whaling"
"Jack London John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include ""The Call of the Wild"" and ""White Fang"", both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories ""To Build a Fire"", ""An Odyssey"
"Billy the Kid Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty September 17 or November 23, 1859July 14, 1881, also known as William H. Bonney) was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21. He took part in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. McCarty was orphaned at age 14. The owner of a boarding house gave him a room in exchange for work. His first arrest was for stealing food at age 16 in late 1875. Ten days later, he robbed a Chinese"
"John Wallace Crawford John Wallace (""Captain Jack)"" Crawford (1847–1917), known as ""The Poet Scout"", was an American adventurer, educator, and author. ""Captain Jack"" was a master storyteller about the Wild West and is known in American history as one of the most popular performers in the late nineteenth century. His daring ride of 350 miles in six days to carry dispatches to Fort Laramie for the ""New York Herald"", to tell the news of the great victory by Gen. George Crook against the village of Chief American Horse at the Battle of Slim Buttes during the Great Sioux War of"
"from soldiers in 1818, Michael Howe dropped a knapsack containing a self-made book of kangaroo skin and written in kangaroo blood. In it was a dream diary and plans for a settlement he intended to found in the bush. Sometime bushranger Francis MacNamara, also known as Frank the Poet, wrote some of the best-known poems of the convict era. Several convict bushrangers also wrote autobiographies, including Jackey Jackey, Martin Cash and Owen Suffolk. Jack Donahue was the first bushranger to have inspired bush ballads, including ""Bold Jack Donahue"" and ""The Wild Colonial Boy"". Ben Hall and his gang were the"
"with most of its crew being lost. Being a voluntary castaway, Selkirk was able to gather numerous provisions to help him to survive, including a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and clothing. He survived on the island for four years and four months, building huts and hunting the plentiful wildlife before his rescue on 2 February 1709. His adventures are said to be a possible inspiration for ""Robinson Crusoe"", a novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. Philip Ashton, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1702, was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia"
"Collection Jack London John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include ""The Call of the Wild"" and ""White Fang"", both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories ""To Build a Fire"", ""An"
"Thomas Nickerson Thomas Gibson Nickerson (March 20, 1805 – February 7, 1883) was an American sailor and author. In 1819, when he was fourteen years old, Nickerson served as cabin boy on the whaleship ""Essex"". On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale it was pursuing, and the crew spent three months at sea before the survivors were rescued. In 1876 he wrote ""The Loss of the Ship ""Essex,"""" an account of the ordeal and of his subsequent experiences at sea. The manuscript was lost until 1960, and was first published in 1984. Nickerson was born in Harwich,"
"George Fred Tilton George Fred Tilton (1861-1932) was an American master mariner, whaler, storyteller, and author who went on his first whaling trip at age 14. Tilton was born in Chilmark, Massachusetts to George Oliver Tilton and Hannah Sisson. He ran away from home at age 14, stowing himself aboard a New Bedford whaling schooner. By the time that he was discovered, the ship was too far from shore and the captain allowed him to stay. Tilton became a highly accomplished whaler, spending over 40 years at sea hunting whales from the equator to the arctic. In 1898, he was"
"who associated with similar characters in his early adulthood and mirrored the style of ""You Can't Win"" with his first published book, ""Junkie"". He is believed to have committed suicide in 1932 by drowning, as he reportedly told his friends that if life got too grim, he would row out into New York Harbor and, with weights tied to his feet, drop overboard. In ""You Can't Win"" Black describes this state of mind as being ""ready for the river"". Jack Black (author) Jack Black was a late-19th-century/early-20th-century hobo and professional burglar. Born in 1871 near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he"
"William Cardell William S. Cardell (1780–1828) was an early American fiction writer and scholar. He is best remembered for his sea stories for boys, which combined adventure tales with moral instruction. ""The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy"" (1824) was the most famous of these; others were ""Jack Halyard and Ishmael Bardus"" and ""Jack Lawrence, or the Adventures of a Cabin Boy"". Cardell produced abundant fiction for younger readers, with titles like ""The Moral Monitor"" and ""The Orphans: an American Tale Addressed Chiefly to the Young"". He was a significant figure in the evolution of American children's literature. In"
"Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen () is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Several adaptations were made, two Soviet and one Franco-Spanish. Themes explored in the novel include: Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy that serves on the schooner ""Pilgrim"", a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. However, this time the hunting season has been unsuccessful, and as they plan to return home three people request passage"
"Charles Ball Charles Ball (1780 - ?) was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account as a fugitive slave, ""The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball"" (1837) and having served in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore Joshua Barney in the War of 1812. The main source for Ball's life is his autobiography, ""Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave Under Various Masters, and was One"
"the manuscript to the Association, who published an abridged version in 1984, a century after Nickerson's death. Nickerson's historical character was dramatized in three films: Thomas Nickerson Thomas Gibson Nickerson (March 20, 1805 – February 7, 1883) was an American sailor and author. In 1819, when he was fourteen years old, Nickerson served as cabin boy on the whaleship ""Essex"". On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale it was pursuing, and the crew spent three months at sea before the survivors were rescued. In 1876 he wrote ""The Loss of the Ship ""Essex,"""" an account of the"
"William Bainbridge William Bainbridge (May 7, 1774 – July 27, 1833) was a Commodore in the United States Navy. During his long career in the young American Navy he served under six presidents beginning with John Adams and is notable for his many victories at sea. He commanded several famous naval ships, including and saw service in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. Bainbridge was also in command of when she grounded off the shores of Tripoli in North Africa, resulting in his capture and imprisonment for many months. In the latter part of his career he became"
"Robert Adams (sailor) Robert Adams (born c. 1790) was a twenty-five-old American sailor who claimed to be enslaved in North Africa for three years, from 1810 to 1814. During this time he claimed to have visited Timbuktu, which would have made him the first Westerner to reach the city, though his narrative is dubious. Upon his stated liberation, and return to Europe, Adams' story was published in two heavily edited and divergent accounts, most notably ""The Narrative of Robert Adams"" in 1816. Because his story was sanctioned by some of the most distinguished men in England, including members of government,"
"Charles Boardman Hawes Charles Boardman Hawes () was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel ""The Dark Frigate"" (1923) as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, ""The New York Times"" observed that ""his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville"". Hawes was the elder son"
"Captain James Riley authored an account of his shipwreck off the coast of Africa. The book was a classic tale of adventure, where a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs, and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert to Mogadore, Morocco. This dramatic account of Captain Riley's trials and sufferings sold more than 1,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and"
"Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. <ref>Scott Standard Postage Catalog, Volume 1, Page 57, Scott #2094. Scott Publishing Company, Sidney Ohio, 2000./<ref> Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include ""Typee"" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last 30 years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the"
"19th century. There were 18th century and earlier precursors that have nautical settings, but few are as richly developed as subsequent works in this genre. The genre has evolved to include notable literary works like Herman Melville's ""Moby Dick"" (1851), Joseph Conrad's ""Lord Jim"" (1899–1900), popular fiction like C.S. Forester's Hornblower series (1937–67), and works by authors that straddle the divide between popular and literary fiction, like Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (1970–2004). Because of the historical dominance of nautical culture by men, they are usually the central characters, except for works that feature ships carrying women passengers. For this reason,"
"an eventful early career, running away to sea at the age of 17 and being twice captured and imprisoned by the British during the War of 1812. He subsequently sailed before the mast for several years before being appointed as chief mate, and later as captain, of the New York sealer ""Wasp"". In 1823 he took ""Wasp"" for an extended voyage into subantarctic waters, and on his return made unsubstantiated claims to have travelled beyond 70 °S and to have sighted new coastlines in the area now known as the Weddell Sea. His subsequent voyages mainly centered on the Pacific,"
"the eldest of ten children in South Oxford (now Webster), Massachusetts. He took his pen name from a Native American who had befriended him in early childhood. He was fascinated by the few books about Native Americans his family possessed, which left him with an abiding interest in forest life and adventure. A period of factory labor while still a child left him with a fondness for the writing of Charles Dickens. At age twelve he started working in a commercial fishing fleet based on Cape Cod and at nineteen he signed on for a three-year voyage on a whaler"
"James Warner Bellah James Warner Bellah (September 14, 1899 in New York City – September 22, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was an American Western author from the 1930s to the 1950s. His pulp-fiction writings on cavalry and Indians were published in paperbacks or serialized in the ""Saturday Evening Post"". Bellah was the author of 19 novels, including ""The Valiant Virginian"" (the inspiration for the 1961 NBC television series """"The Americans""), and ""Blood River"". Some of his short stories were turned into films by John Ford, including ""Fort Apache"", ""She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"", and ""Rio Grande"". With Willis Goldbeck"
"Ridgwell Cullum Ridgwell Cullum (pseudonym of Sidney Groves Burghard) (13 August 1867 – 3 November 1943) was a British writer who wrote a large number of adventure novels over more than 30 years, usually set in sparsely populated regions of the United States or Canada. He left home aged 17 to join a gold rush in the Transvaal in South Africa, where he became involved in the conflict between British and Boer settlers; he travelled to the scene of another gold rush in Yukon in north-west Canada; he spent a few years cattle-ranching in Montana, USA. His first novel ""The"
"subsequently court-martialled, but exonerated. Gansevoort's first cousin, Herman Melville, later wrote the novella ""Billy Budd"", inspired by the events. Gansevoort was promoted to commander on 14 September 1855, and the following year took part in the First Battle of Tuxpan and First Battle of Tabasco during the Mexican–American War. In January 1856 during the Puget Sound War, Gansevoort landed seamen and marines from to defend Seattle, Washington Territory, from Native Americans. Between 1861 and 1863, during the Civil War, Gansevoort was in charge of ordnance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, receiving promotion to captain on 16 July 1862, while helping"
"in Africa and transported by slave ship, he was freed in 1787 and was supposedly 130 years old when he died around 1840, but was more likely aged about 100. His holdings included what today are the Carnival Grounds, south of downtown Chincoteague. In the first half of the 19th century, Chincoteague became a source of seafood. As the cities along the eastern seaboard, such as New York and Philadelphia, continued to expand, their local areas could not supply them with enough shellfish. Islanders saw the opportunity, and many abandoned agriculture, instead harvesting the sea. The villagers of Chincoteague petitioned"
"paying tribute in these words: ""[Crawford] was a real scout, and a real poet —a man with a warrior's soul and the heart of a woman."" In later life Jack separated from his family and moved back east, settling in Woodhaven, Long Island, New York. He died of Bright's disease on February 27, 1917. John Wallace Crawford John Wallace (""Captain Jack)"" Crawford (1847–1917), known as ""The Poet Scout"", was an American adventurer, educator, and author. ""Captain Jack"" was a master storyteller about the Wild West and is known in American history as one of the most popular performers in the"
"Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ""Pequod"", for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work's genre classifications range from late Romantic to early Symbolist. ""Moby-Dick"" was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as"
"journalists and politicians focused on in the novel was its graphic descriptions of flogging and the horrors caused by its arbitrary use; in fact, because Harper & Bros. made sure the book got into the hands of every member of Congress, ""White-Jacket"" was instrumental in abolishing flogging in the U.S. Navy forever. Melville scholars also acknowledge the huge number of parallels between ""White-Jacket"" and ""Billy Budd"" and view the former as a rich source for possible interpretations of the latter. The novel takes its title from the outer garment that the eponymous main character fashions for himself on board ship,"
"Despite its discrepancies, it is surmised that Adam's story found an audience due to ""sympathy and curiosity of Africa"" at the time."" Robert Adams (sailor) Robert Adams (born c. 1790) was a twenty-five-old American sailor who claimed to be enslaved in North Africa for three years, from 1810 to 1814. During this time he claimed to have visited Timbuktu, which would have made him the first Westerner to reach the city, though his narrative is dubious. Upon his stated liberation, and return to Europe, Adams' story was published in two heavily edited and divergent accounts, most notably ""The Narrative of"