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The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine

✍ Scribed by Stockton, Frank Richard


Book ID
109281009
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Year
2008
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
5325757997

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The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (1886) told of two middle-aged women on a sea voyage to Japan who become castaways on a deserted island.
'...I WAS on my way from San Francisco to Yoko- i hama, when in a very desultory and gradual manner I became acquainted with Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine. The steamer, on which I was making a moderately rapid passage toward the land of the legended fan and the lacquered box, carried a fair complement of passengers, most of whom were Americans; and, among these, my attention was attracted from the very first day of the voyage to two middle-aged women who appeared to me very unlike the ordinary traveler or tourist. At first sight they might...'

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