SEAFARING HERO Miles Wallingford, scion of a wealthy New York family, continues his adventures in this sea tale from the well-known American author JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851), best known as the author of the Leatherstocking Tales.Miles Sequel to Afloat and Ashore, is a historical novel by American author JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, published in 1844 in the UNITED STATES. It was one of several sea novels, inspired by the author's own experience as a sailor. Cooper drew was a pioneer of nautical fiction novels, in which he used his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea.The novel is partly autobiographical in that it is based partly on Cooper's own experiences as a sailor, and this is Cooper's first novel to use a first-person narrative. The British edition of the sequel, "Miles Wallingford," is titled, "Lucy A Second Series of Afloat and Ashore." "It was fortunate for Andrew Drewett that a man of Post's experience and steadiness was with us. No sooner was the seemingly lifeless body on board, than Mr. Hardinge ordered the water-cask to be got out; and he and Marble would have soon been rolling the poor fellow with all their might, or holding him up by the heels, under the notion that the water he had swallowed must be got out of him, before he could again breathe; but the authority of one so high in the profession soon put a stop to this. Drewett's wet clothes were immediately removed, blankets were warmed at the galley, and the most judicious means were resorted to, in order to restore the circulation. The physician soon detected signs of life, and, ordering all but one or two assistants to leave the spot, in ten minutes Drewett was placed in a warm bed, and might be considered out of danger.""