Great Sea StoriesJoseph Lewis French Brentano's, 1921 - 332 sider ...It is one of the curiosities of literature, a fact that old Isaac Disraeli might have delighted to linger over, that there have been no collectors of sea-tales; that no man has ever, as in the present instance, dwelt upon the topic with the purpose of gathering some of the best work into a single volume. And yet men have written of the sea since 2500 B.C. when an unknown author set down on papyrus his account of a struggle with a sea-serpent. This account, now in the British Museum, is the first sea-story on record. Our modern sea-stories begin properly with the chronicles of the early navigators-in many of which there is an unconscious art that none of our modern masters of fiction has greatly surpassed. For delightful reading the lover of sea stories is referred to Best's account of Frobisher's second voyage-to Richard Chancellor's chronicle of the same period-to Hakluyt, an immortal classic-and to Purchas' "Pilgrimage."... |
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... shore with her . " Sulkily enough , but unable to deny the necessity , the men set to work , and the vessel's head was put toward the land ; but when she began to slip through the water , the leak increased so fast that they were kept ...
... shore . And here we had an instance showing how very important it is that the cap- tain of a man - of - war should be a good sailor , and have his ship in such discipline as to be strictly obeyed by his ship's company . I heard the ...
... shore , and the con- sultations of the captain and officers , and the eager- ness with which they looked out for daylight , told us that we had other dangers to encounter besides the storm . At last the morning broke , and the look ...
... shore , which presented one continued surface of foam , extending to within half a cable's length of our position . The captain waved his hand in silence to the quartermaster at the wheel , and the helm was put down . The ship turned ...