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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... hope of the compiler that the present collection offers undisputable evidence that the prose tradition has been fully sustained and that the reader will find in these pages living testimony to the marvelous interest of the theme - its ...
... hope in God it may be as safe from fevers . " " Beggars must not be choosers , " said Amyas . So in they went . They towed the ship up about half - a - mile to a point where she could not be seen from the seaward ; and there moored her ...
... hope not , too ; but a few minutes will decide the point . " The ship was now within two cables ' lengths of the rocky point ; some few of the men I observed to clasp their hands , but most of them were silently taking off their jackets ...
... hope you have all shipped ? " " No , we han't , " said some of them . " Nor shall we be in any hurry , boy , " said others . " Do as you please , but I shall , as soon as I can , I know ; and I recommend all of you making yourselves ...
... hope of mercy . The two others were white Frenchmen , tall , bushy - whiskered , sallow des- peradoes , but still , wonderful to relate , with , if I may so speak , the manners of gentlemen . One of them squinted , and had a hare - lip ...