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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... steered for, did not break on the shore in a rolling curling wave, as it usually does, but smoothed away under the lee of a small sandy promontory that ran out into the sea, about half a cable's length to windward, and then slid up the ...
... steered for, did not break on the shore in a rolling curling wave, as it usually does, but smoothed away under the lee of a small sandy promontory that ran out into the sea, about half a cable's length to windward, and then slid up the ...
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Du har nået visningsgrænsen for denne bog.
Du har nået visningsgrænsen for denne bog.
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Indhold
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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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Agra Ahab Amyas anchor arms Bertie Blood blow boat boatswain Boisberthelot Boston broken cabin cannon captain carronades coast crew cried dead deck Dodd door eyes fell fire flag flashed flew floating floor Florida Channel flying foam forecastle foresail forward gale Ginnell gunner gunwale hand Harman Harriwell hauled head heard helm instant island James Flint La Guayra land leeward looked mainsail masts mate midshipman minutes Moby Dick morning night oars Pat Ginnell pirate Pitcairn's Island poop port pulled quarter Rhondda rifle rigging roared rolled rope rose round rushed sail sailor San Lucas Islands Schenke schooner ship ship's shore shot shouted side sight skipper soon Spaniards spars starboard Starbuck steered stern stood took Treenail turned vessel Vieuville voice watch waves weather whale White Whale wind wreck yards
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Great Sea Stories |
| Redaktør | Joseph Lewis French |
| Udgiver | The Floating Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1775418227, 9781775418221 |
| Længde | 454 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |