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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... poop , Cary of the forecastle , and Yeo , as gunner , of the main - deck , while Drew , as master , settled himself ... poop ; and her trumpets are shouting defiance up the breeze , from a dozen brazen throats , which two or three answer ...
... poop , worked away lustily at his violin . " Well played , Jack ; thy elbow flies like a lamb's tail , " said Amyas , forcing a jest . " It shall fly to a better fiddle - bow presently , sir , and I have the luck— " " Steady , helm ...
... poop . Down went the mizzen topmast , in went the stern - windows and quarter - galleries ; and as the smoke cleared away , the golden flag of Spain , which the last moment flaunted above their heads , hung trailing in the water ...
... poop , accompanied , to their intense disgust , by Amyas Leigh and twenty English swords . Five minutes ' hard cutting , hand to hand , and the poop was clear . The soldiers in the forecastle had been able to give them no assistance ...
... poop and forecastle ( as was then the fashion ) the upper - deck beams were left open . and unplanked , with the exception of a narrow gangway on either side ; and off that fatal ledge the boarders , thrust on by those behind , fell ...