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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... continued the tradition of Hakluyt and Purchas . By this time the sea - power of England had become supreme , -Britannia ruled the waves , and a native sea - literature was the result . The sea - songs of Thomas Dibdin and other writers ...
... continued our cruise along the coast , until we had run down into the Bay of Arcason , where we captured two or three vessels , and obliged many more to run on shore . And here we had an instance showing how very important it is that ...
... belay , " said the captain . Falcon , " continued he , " if she breaks off again we may have no room to wear ; indeed , there is so little room now , that I must run the Which cable was ranged last night - the best risk 28 GREAT SEA ...
... continued to hold her course good ; and we were within half a mile of the point , and fully expected to weather it , when again the wet and heavy sails flapped in the wind , and the ship broke off two points as before . The officers and ...
... continued O'Brien , " variation 2 leeway rather too large an allowance of that , I'm afraid ; but , however , we'll give her 2 points ; the Diomede would blush to make any more , under any cir- Here the compass now , we'll see ...