Explore "David Goes Voyaging" by David Binney Putnam on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Today Christianson is a taxi driver in New York City, but in November, 1906, he was a sailor on the ship Alexander, bound from South Wales to Panama with a cargo of coal. Fred Jeff was his pal, and they had made other voyages together.
The story of the wrecked taxi cab driver is told in a chapter in Uncle Will's book Galápagos, World's End. I read it long before I ever thought there would be a chance of my really seeing the Islands myself. It is about the most interesting adventure story you could imagine.