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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... dark ring of mangroves . Wailing sadly , sad - colored mangrove - hens ran off across the mud into the dreary dark . The hoarse night - raven , hid among the roots , startled the voyagers with a sudden shout , and then all was again ...
... dark alley here . " This called forth another volley of oaths and un- savoury exclamations , and all was bustle and confusion , and packing up of bundles , and settling of reckonings . " Where , " said one of the seamen , - " where do ...
... dark statue - like figures of the men , and casting their long shadows strongly against the mud wall of the house ; at another , a black cloud , as it flew across her disk , cast everything into deep shade ; while the only noise we ...
... dark , and as we were the sternmost of the men - of - war , we had the task of whipping in the sluggards . It was my watch on deck . A gun from the commodore , who showed a num- ber of lights . " What is that , Mr. Kennedy ? " said the ...
... dark hair loose and dishevelled , and covering the upper part of her deadly pale face , through which her wild sparkling black eyes , protruding from their sockets , glanced and glared with the fire of a maniac's , while her blue lips ...