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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... appearance , " said one of the men . The lieutenant now ranged the press - gang against the wall fronting the door , and stepping into the middle of the room , drew his pistol and cocked it . " Messmates , " he sang out , as if ...
... appearing afterwards . We did so , and now , as it was getting dark , the captain came up to Mr. Treenail . " Why , Mr. Treenail , I think we had better heave to for the night , and in this case I shall want you to go in the cutter to ...
... appeared to be well known to all hands , and indeed the life of the party , for , like Falstaff , he was not only witty in himself , but the cause of wit in others . The gentleman to whom he had pointed me out im- mediately rose , made ...
... appeared to have been fitted with great care . I got a week's leave at this time , and , as I had letters to several families , I con- trived to spend my time pleasantly enough . Bermuda , as all the world knows , is a cluster of ...