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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... CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT The Cruise of the Torch . 36 From " Tom Cringle's Log . " By MICHAEL SCOTT The Merchantman and the Pirate From " Hard Cash . " By CHARLES READE The Mutiny of the Bounty • From " Chamber's Miscellany ...
... Captain Marryat , who was to the sea what Dickens and Thackeray were to land folk . America , too , contributed to this literary movement . Even before Marryat , our own Cooper had essayed the sea with a masterly hand , while in " Moby ...
... captain ; you must eat too . " Amyas shook his head , took the tiller from the steers- man , and bade him go below and fill himself . Will Cary went down , and returned in five minutes with a plate of bread and beef , and a great jack ...
... Captain Hawkins left behind in the Honduras , years and years agone ? There's nine of us aboard , if your shot hasn't put ' em out of their misery . Come down , if you've a Christian heart , come down ! " Utterly forgetful of all ...
... captain , and have at her . " " Let her come abreast of us , and don't burn powder . We have the wind , and can do what we like with her . Serve the men out a horn of ale all round , steward , and all take your time . " So they waited ...