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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... Wilder . He had certainly driven the Bristol trader through the water at a rate she had never been known to go before ; but , thus far , the facts themselves gave evidence in his favour , since no injury was the consequence of what they ...
... Wilder had spoken , to awaken the drowsy and to excite the torpid . The instant he found each man on the alert , he resumed his orders with a calmness that gave a direction to the powers of all , and yet with an energy that he well knew ...
... Wilder made a swift turn or two on the quarter - deck , turning his quick glances from one quarter of the heavens to another ; from the black and lulling water on which his vessel was rolling , to the sails ; and from his silent and ...
... Wilder ! " said Earing , presuming on his rank to be the first to speak . " I have known far less notice given of a shift of wind , " was the answer . " We have had time to gather in our kites , ' tis true , sir ; but there are signs ...
... Wilder , with a peculiar and per- haps an ironical emphasis on the word , " what would ye have ? There is not a breath of air stirring and the ship is naked to her topsails ! " It would have been difficult for either of the two mal ...