Timeline for Info about the incident that inspired Heinlein's "Starman Jones"?
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| Oct 30, 2018 at 8:21 | history | edited | SQB |
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| Oct 27, 2018 at 2:47 | vote | accept | Jeff Dege | ||
| Mar 28, 2018 at 23:24 | answer | added | user2490 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 22:29 | comment | added | user2490 | same question on history.SE: history.stackexchange.com/questions/43377/… | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 22:25 | comment | added | user2490 | Gifford's Heinlein: A Reader's Companion has a note that looks similar except for a few details. It's "late" in the 19th century, and they "rowed out to sea in a small boat." The source is "Heinlein's accession notes to UC Santa Cruz, 1967," so the changes may just be due to Gifford's paraphrasing and/or inaccuracy. Late 19th century sounds wrong, because China Clippers probably no longer existed past about 1870-80. | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 19:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/934870483744514048 | ||
| Nov 26, 2017 at 17:42 | comment | added | Valorum | Another version of same story here; "2 kids rich & erratic, took off in sail boat, picked up by China Clipper; 2 yrs; mutiny, sickness, one came back in command . . . This actually happened in XIXth Cent. RAH." | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 17:31 | comment | added | Valorum | The idea of two lads leaving for the sea and coming up in the ranks is quite a common trope; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 16:05 | history | asked | Jeff Dege | CC BY-SA 3.0 |