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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... course , and as we approached our pigmy antagonist , he bore up . Presently we were alongside of him . " Heave to , " hailed the strange sail ; " heave to , or I'll sink you . " The devil you will , you THE CRUISE OF THE TORCH 59.
... course , but the foreign ship was finally allowed to continue her course . The next day I had the forenoon watch ; the weather had lulled unexpectedly nor was there much sea , and the deck was all alive , to take advantage of the fine ...
... course ; for the wind being foul , all Sharpe could do was to set his topsails , driver , and jib , and keep her in the tide way , and clear of the numerous craft , by backing or filling as the case required ; which he did with ...
... course then approaching the Straits of Gaspar , 4 Latitude S. " She is hove to , " said Dodd , very gravely . At eight o'clock , the stranger lay about two miles to windward ; and still hove to . By this time all eyes were turned upon ...