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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... officer , to be as stout in discipline and as dogged of purpose , as he himself was : but he had trained him also to feel with and for his men , to make allowances for them , and to keep his temper with them , as he did this day ...
... officers unanimously assert , after the danger was over , that nothing but the presence of mind which was shown by Captain Savage could have saved the ship and her crew . We had chased a convoy of vessels to the bottom of the bay : the ...
... officers , remained on deck during the whole of the night ; and really , what with the howling of the wind , the violence of the rain , the washing of the water about the decks , the working of the chain - pumps , and the creaking and ...
... officers and seamen were aghast , for the ship's head was right on to the breakers . " Luff now , all you can , quartermaster , " cried the captain . " Send the men aft directly . My lads , there is no time for words - I am going to ...
... officer , and knew that there was no time for discussion , to make any remark : and the event proved that the captain was right . At last the ship was head to wind , and the captain gave the signal . The yards flew round with such a ...