Great Sea StoriesJoseph Lewis French The Floating Press, 1. jun. 2010 - 454 sider "The theme of the sea is heroic--epic. Since the first stirrings of the imagination of man the sea has enthralled him; and since the dawn of literature he has chronicled his wanderings upon its vast bosom." Joseph Lewis French collected what he considered the best sea stories of literature into this volume. |
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Side 20
... Heard, my cousin, here among you?" Yes, Michael Heard is there, white-headed rather from misery than age; and the embracings and questionings begin afresh. "Where is my wife, Salvation Yeo?" "With the Lord." "Amen!" says the old man ...
... Heard, my cousin, here among you?" Yes, Michael Heard is there, white-headed rather from misery than age; and the embracings and questionings begin afresh. "Where is my wife, Salvation Yeo?" "With the Lord." "Amen!" says the old man ...
Side 27
... heard from the Spaniards upper-deck. Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging and looked through the smoke. Dead men he could descry through the blinding veil, rolled in heaps, laid flat; dead men and dying; but no man upon his feet. The ...
... heard from the Spaniards upper-deck. Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging and looked through the smoke. Dead men he could descry through the blinding veil, rolled in heaps, laid flat; dead men and dying; but no man upon his feet. The ...
Side 28
... Heard. With hair and beard floating in the wind, the bronzed naked figure, like some weird old Indian fakir, still climbed on steadfastly up the mizzen-chains of the Spaniard, hatchet in hand. "Come back, Michael! Leap while you may ...
... Heard. With hair and beard floating in the wind, the bronzed naked figure, like some weird old Indian fakir, still climbed on steadfastly up the mizzen-chains of the Spaniard, hatchet in hand. "Come back, Michael! Leap while you may ...
Side 29
... of Spain, stood the tall captain, his left hand on the standard-staff, his sword pointed in his right. "Back men!" they heard him cry, "and die like valiant mariners." Some of them ran to the bulwarks, and shouted 29.
... of Spain, stood the tall captain, his left hand on the standard-staff, his sword pointed in his right. "Back men!" they heard him cry, "and die like valiant mariners." Some of them ran to the bulwarks, and shouted 29.
Side 31
... Heard. The Don, who stood above him, plunged his sword into the old man's body: but the hatchet gleamed, nevertheless: down went the blade through the headpiece and through head; and as Heard sprang onward, bleeding, but alive, the ...
... Heard. The Don, who stood above him, plunged his sword into the old man's body: but the hatchet gleamed, nevertheless: down went the blade through the headpiece and through head; and as Heard sprang onward, bleeding, but alive, the ...
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The Merchantman and the Pirate | 107 |
Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty | 139 |
The Wreck of the Royal Caroline | 176 |
The Capture of the Great White Whale | 197 |
The Merchants Cup | 276 |
A Storm and a Rescue | 307 |
The Sailors Wife | 339 |
The Salving of the YanShan | 357 |
The Derelict Neptune | 384 |
The Terrible Solomons | 416 |
El Dorado | 442 |
Endnotes | 453 |
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