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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... deck guns as if in defiance exploded upright into the air , hurling the ball to the very heavens . In an instant it was answered from the Rose by a column of smoke , and the eighteen - pound ball crashed through the bottom of the ...
... deck still dry . Righted : but only for a moment , long enough to let her crew come pouring wildly up on deck , with cries and prayers , and rush aft to the poop , where , under the flag of Spain , stood the tall captain , his left hand ...
... deck strewn with the bodies of nine good men , besides sixteen wounded down below ; while the pitiless sun , right above their heads , poured down a flood of fire upon a sea of glass . And it would have been well if faintness and ...
... deck during the whole of the night ; and really , what with the howling of the wind , the violence of the rain , the washing of the water about the decks , the working of the chain - pumps , and the creaking and groaning of the timbers ...
... deck to see how the weather was , and if the wind at all favored us . On deck the superior officers were in conversation with the captain , who expressed the same fear that O'Brien had in our berth . The men , who knew what they had to ...