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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... Whale . 145 From " Moby Dick . " By HERMAN MELVILLE The Corvette Claymore 181 · • • From " Ninety - three . " By VICTOR HUGO The Merchants ' Cup 203 From " Broken Stowage . " By DAVID W. BONE A Storm and a Rescue 226 · From " The Wreck ...
... whale , exposing all her long black hulk almost down to the keel , and one of her lower - deck guns as if in defiance exploded upright into the air , hurling the ball to the very heavens . In an instant it was answered from the Rose by ...
... whale oil . They were , generally speaking , hardy , weather - beaten men , and the greater proportion half , or more than half , drunk . When I entered , I walked up to the landlord . " Yo ho , my young un ! whence and whither bound ...
... whale to the swordfish , " suggested Fullalove , with a little guttural laugh . The captain , with the American glass at his eye , turned half round to the man at the wheel : " Starboard ! " " Starboard it is . " " Steer South South ...
... whale : it was a fight of hammer and anvil ; one hit , the other made a noise . Cautious and cruel , the pirate hung on the poor hulking creature's quarters and raked her at point blank distance . He made her pass a bitter time . And ...