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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... weather ! " " I wish you'd come forward and speak to them , sir , " said Yeo , who had overheard the last words , " or we shall get nought done . " Amyas went forward instantly . " Now then , my brave lads , what's the matter here ...
... weather looked very threatening . In an hour afterwards , the whole sky was covered with one black cloud , which sank so low as nearly to touch our mast - heads , and a tremendous sea , which appeared to have risen up almost by magic ...
... weather it we shall have more sea - room . Keep her full , and let her go through the water ; do you hear , quartermaster ? " " Ay , ay , sir . " " Thus , and no nearer , my man . Ease her with a spoke or two when she sends ; but be ...
... weather it , when again the wet and heavy sails flapped in the wind , and the ship broke off two points as before . The officers and seamen were aghast , for the ship's head was right on to the breakers . " Luff now , all you can ...
... weather hammock - rails , holding by the main - rigging , ordered the helm a - midships , looked full at the sails , and then at the cable , which grew broad upon the weather - bow , and held the ship from nearing the shore . At last he ...