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A Sailor in Spite of Himself: Annotated Color Edition with Premium Analytics
Paperback
Series: Naval Classics
ISBN13: 9781608885978
Publisher: Warships and Navies
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Harry Castlemon's 1898 adventure novel at the intersection of American maritime and literary history.
This Naval Classics edition features RKHS (Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space) analytical enrichments including surprisal analysis, narrative complexity metrics, and computational literary analysis that illuminate the text from a modern data-science perspective.
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