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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... masts were all sloping forward , swifter and swifter - the end was come , then ! " Back ! in God's name back , men ! She is sinking by the head ! " And with much ado some were dragged back , some leaped back - all but old Michael Heard ...
... mast was gone , the main - yard sprung , the rigging hanging in elf - locks , the hull shot through and through in twenty places , the deck strewn with the bodies of nine good men , besides sixteen wounded down below ; while the ...
... mast . " Come along ! " cried Cary to the malcontents ; " we're raw longshore fellows , but we won't be outdone by any old sea - dog of them all . " And setting to work himself , he was soon followed by one and another , till order and ...
... mast - heads , and a tremendous sea , which appeared to have risen up almost by magic , rolled in upon us , setting the vessel on a dead lee shore . As the night closed in , it blew a dreadful gale , and the ship was nearly buried with ...
... masts had gone over the side , and the next moment the wind had caught the sails ; and the ship , which for a moment or two had been on an even keel , careened over to her gunwale with its force . The captain , who stood upon the ...