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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... oar . " Lieutenant , " said he , " will you allow me to put this barrel of New York apples into the boat as a present to Captain Deadeye , from Captain * * of the United States navy ? " Mr. Treenail bowed , and said he would ; and we ...
... oars . Next day ( Wednesday , April 29 ) we found a cove , where we landed . I observed the latitude of this cove to be 19 degrees 41 minutes south . This is the northwest part of Tofoa , the north - westernmost of the Friendly Islands ...
... oars apeak , and paddles down , the sheets of their sails adrift , the three boats now stilly floated , await- ing Moby Dick's reappearance . " An hour , " said Ahab , standing rooted in his boat's stern ; and he gazed beyond the ...
Joseph Lewis French. commanded his crew to grasp their oars and stand by to stern . Now , by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis , its bow , by anticipation , was made to face the whale's head while yet under ...
... oars to lash them across . At that preluding moment , ere the boat was yet snapped , Ahab , the first to perceive the whale's intent , by the crafty upraising of his head , a movement that loosed his hold for the time ; at that moment ...