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."... |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 56
... W. CLARK RUSSELL The Sailor's Wife . 250 • From " An Iceland Fisherman . " By PIERRE Loti The Salving of the Yan - Shan . . 263 From " In Blue Waters . " By H. DE VERE STACPOOLE PAGE The Derelict Neptune 282 From " Spun Gold . V.
... sailors ) to all manner of trades , and made much money ; so that all went well , until the fatal year 1574 , when , much against the minds of many of the Spaniards them- selves , that cruel and bloody Inquisition was established for ...
... sailors , and were cheer- ing , thrusting , hewing , and hauling , here , there , and everywhere , like any common mariner , and filling them with a spirit of self - respect , fellow - feeling , and personal daring , which the ...
... sailors who struggled and shrieked amid the foam , and rushed up- ward at the Spaniard . It was Michael Heard . The Don , who stood above him , plunged his sword into the old man's body : but the hatchet gleamed , nevertheless : down ...
... sailor , and have his ship in such discipline as to be strictly obeyed by his ship's company . I heard the officers unanimously assert , after the danger was over , that nothing but the presence of mind which was shown by Captain Savage ...