Excerpt from Homeward Bound From the Chesapeake to the Mersey in the Schooner Yacht Nathalie, TonsA taste for yachting is an acquired one and capable of very extended culture. The yachtsman may be said -to belong to a race of superior beings, whos'e faculties have an unbounded range, instead of a certain limited patch of earth - the entire globe is his domain. His freedom is not the freedom of a city, but a planet, and the most refined and educated man can only be enobled by its attainment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.