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John Edward Needham
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: The Bible
'"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the Bible. Having been a freethinker for several years ... I decided to give this [latter] tome the benefit of the doubt and read it from cover to cover, which did nothing to convince me, but only reinforced my views".'
