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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... vessel's head was put toward the land ; but when she began to slip through the water , the leak increased so fast that they were kept hard at work at the pumps for the rest of the afternoon . The current had by this time brought them ...
... vessels , and obliged many more to run on shore . And here we had an instance showing how very important it is that ... vessel on a dead lee shore . As the night closed in , it blew a dreadful gale , and the ship was nearly buried with ...
... vessels , who had run from his indentures , and that you had narrowly escaped from a press - gang this very night here . " I made no scruples , but forthwith arrayed myself in the slops contained in the bundle ; in a pair of shag ...
... vessels - and a noble sight truly . A line - of - battle ship led , and two frigates and three sloops of our class were stationed on the outskirts of the fleet , whipping them in , as it were . We made Madeira in fourteen days , looked ...
... vessel is that astern of us ? " said Treenail to the mate . Before he could answer , a shot from the brig fired at the privateer showed she was broad awake . Next moment Captain Deadeye hailed . " Have you mastered the prize crew , Mr ...