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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... 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 Dick , " as in his other stories , Herman Melville glorified the theme ...
... land ; but when she began to slip through the water , the leak increased so fast that they were kept hard at work at the pumps for the rest of the afternoon . The current had by this time brought them abreast of the bay of Higuerote ...
... Land on the lee beam ! " I per- ceived the master dash his feet against the hammock - rails , as if with vexation , and walk away without saying a word , looking very grave . " Up there , Mr. Wilson , " said the captain to the second ...
... land was only a little on the lee - bow . " We must wear her round , Mr. Falcon . Hands , wear ship - ready , oh , ready . " " She has come up again , " cried the master , who was at the binnacle . " Hold fast there a minute . How's her ...
... land . " My lads , " said the captain to the ship's company , 66 you have behaved well , and I thank you ; but I must tell you honestly that we have more difficulties to get through . We have to weather a point of the bay on this tack ...