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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... Island . A line - of- battle ship , three frigates , and a number of merchantmen at anchor - men - of - war lovely craft - bands playing — a good deal of the pomp and circumstances of war . Next forenoon , Mr. Treenail , the second ...
... island . In a week after we arrived off the east end of Jamaica ; and that same evening , in obe- dience to the orders of the admiral on the windward Is- land station , we hove to in Bull Bay , in order to land des- patches , and secure ...
... island , shaped like the tail of a comet , tapering away , and gradually roughening and becoming more stormy , until the roaring billows once more owned allegiance to the genius of the storm . There we rode , with three anchors ahead ...
... islands in the middle of the Atlantic . There are Lord knows how many of them , but the beauty of the little straits and ... island , Hamilton , to attend a ball there . We had to cross three ferries , although the distance was not above ...
... islands , many of them not above an acre in extent fancy an island of an acre in extent ! - with a solitary house , a small garden , a red - skinned family , a piggery , and all around clear deep pellucid water . None of the islands ...