Sublime

Each vessel carried “Northern” as its first name, for instance Northern Light. And each embodied the same philosophy of massive tonnages and low rates that Hill and others were applying to rail transport.

Her crew consisted of six men whose faces were black with caked soot and half-hidden by matted beards, whose bodies were dead white from constant soaking in salt water. In addition, their faces, and particularly their fingers were marked with ugly round patches of missing skin where frostbites had eaten into their flesh. Their legs from the knees d

Leaving his job as a ship’s captain, Webb began training at the Lambeth Baths in London. Soon he moved on to the Thames (which is a feat in itself considering the water quality of the Victorian-era Thames) and when satisfied with his progress moved to Dover where (in June 1874) he swam from the Admiralty Pier to the North-East Varne Buoy, a distanc

Already heavily populated with exiles, Yakutsk was seeing an almost daily influx of new arrivals. They came from all over the Russian Empire, from Moscow, from the Crimea, from Poland. Many of them were well educated, and most did not know what they had done to earn their term of banishment—which, often as not, was for life. Seldom had they even be