# At the back of the world

Author: Pugh, George; Pugh, Jennie

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71571

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=At+the+back+of+the+world+Pugh&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

AS far back as I can remember the sea had a strange fascination for me, and if, as is the custom with old people to ask a boy, however small, what he is going to be when he is a man, I invariably answered “a sailor of course.” At school the lessons I liked best were geography, and the only books that interested me were those that told of travel in foreign lands. Born in Liverpool, that city by the sea, and living, for the first fourteen years of my life, within a mile of the docks, it was no wonder that I was passionately fond of the water, and all my spare time was spent at the docks talking to the sailors, amongst whom I had heaps of friends. The tales they told me of what they had seen...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-the-back-of-the-world-71571/chapters/4/index.md)