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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... Bertie Arkwright was not inevitable . He was too sen- sitive , too finely strung , and he possessed too much imag- ination . The world was too much with him . He pro- jected himself too quiveringly into his environment . Therefore , the ...
... Bertie Arkwright's whole carcass . But then , the lady tourists had nothing by which to judge save appearances , and Bertie certainly was a fine- looking man . Bertie talked with Captain Malu in the smoking - room , confiding to him his ...
... Bertie proposed warmly . The other shook his head . " Then I'll show you . ' 99 Bertie started to put the muzzle to his own temple with the evident intention of pulling the trigger . " Just a second , " Captain Malu said quietly ...
... Bertie went aboard the Arla as guest for a four - days ' recruiting cruise on the coast of Malaita . Thereafter the Arla would drop him at Reminge Plantation ( also owned by Captain Malu ) , where Bertie could remain for a week , and ...
... Bertie began . " Yes , just that , " said Captain Hansen . " It was acci- dental drowning . " " But on deck- ? " " Just so . I don't mind telling you , in confidence , of course , that they used an axe . " " This present crew of yours ...