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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... face of the corpse was uncovered , the hands were crossed on the breast , and there was a plate of salt on the stomach . An iron cresset , charged with coarse rancid oil , hung from the roof , the dull smoky red light flickering on the ...
... face in streams , sat up in the shell . " All right , " said Mr. Treenail ; " help him out of his berth . " He was pinioned like the rest , and forthwith we walked them all off to the beach . By this time there was an un- usual bustle ...
... face purple from the blood running to his head , and the white of his eyes turned up , while his loud stertorous breathing but too clearly indicated the rupture of a vessel on the brain . He was a stout portly man , and although we ...
Joseph Lewis French. his face , and did all we could for him , he never spoke after- wards , and died in half an hour . Four gentlemanly - looking men were sitting at table , lashed to their chairs , pale and trembling , while six of the ...