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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... asked Will Cary . " Never , sir , " answered Yeo . " To St. Jago be it , " said Amyas , " if we can get there : but - God help us ! " And he looked round sadly enough ; while no one needed that he should finish his sentence , or explain ...
... said I had . " I am going there on duty to - night ; I daresay , if you asked the captain to let you accompany me , he would do pass- so . " This was too good an offer 36 The Cruise of the Torch From "Tom Cringle's Log " By MICHAEL SCOTT.
... asked leave , and got it ; and the evening found my friend the lieu- tenant , and myself , after a ride of three hours , during which I , for one , had my bottom sheathing grievously rubbed , and a considerable botheration at crossing ...
... asked him half in a whisper , could he make out anything ? " Wal , " said he , " the varmint looks considerably snaky . " Then , without moving his glass , he let drop a word at a time , as if the facts were trickling into his tele ...