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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... close to them for the last half - hour that the mainsail had been set ) . " Come aft , you and I must take the helm . We shall want nerve there , and only there , now . " The captain and first lieutenant went aft , and took the fore ...
... sharp features appear to move , and glimmer , and gibber as it were , from the changing shades . Close to the head there was a small door opening into an apartment of some kind , but the coffin was placed so near it 44 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... close , sir . " We repeated the signal and stood on , hailing the dullest of the merchantmen in our neighbour- hood to make more sail , and firing a musket - shot now and then over the more distant of them . By - and - by we saw a large ...
... close by the bits , with his hands tied at the wrists by sharp cords , so tightly that the blood was spouting from beneath his nails . " We have been surprised by a privateer schooner , sir ; the lieutenant of her , and several men ...
... close to the head of the stairs . The gentle- man who sat at the foot of the table had his back towards me , and was not at first aware of my presence . But the guest at his right hand , a happy - looking , red - faced , well- dressed ...