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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... Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered , and the sail to be shortened . The acute policy dictating these movements was suffi- ciently vindicated at daybreak , by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and ...
... Ahab's heel . From this height the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead , at every roll of the sea revealing his ... Ahab , hail- ing the perched men all around him . " I saw him almost that same instant , sir , that Captain Ahab did ...
... Ahab heading the onset . A pale , death - glimmer lit up Fedallah's sunken eyes ; a hideous motion gnawed his mouth . Like noiseless nautilus shells , their light prows sped through the sea ; but only slowly they neared the foe . As ...
... Ahab's boat ; and when within a few yards began fluttering over the water there , wheeling round and round , with joyous , expectant cries . Their vision was keener than man's ; Ahab could discover no sign in the sea . But suddenly as ...
... Ahab's head , and reached higher than that . In this attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse . With unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed , and crossed his arms ; but the tiger- yellow crew were ...