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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... quarter - deck . Hit or not hit , the steersman lost his nerve , and shrank from the coming shock . The galley's helm went up to port , and her beak slid all but harmless along Amyas's bow ; a long dull grind , and then loud crack on ...
... quarters again ; indeed , they only go on condition of parting among themselves with them the newcomers , each to ... quarter of an hour was past . So , kneeling down upon the deck , as many a brave crew in those days did in like case ...
... quarters ; for half the day's work , or more than half , still remained to be done ; and hardly were the decks cleared afresh , and the damage repaired as best it could be , when she came ranging up to leeward , as closehauled as she ...
... quarters , sir , " said Yeo , privately , " as far as Spaniards go . I hope in God it may be as safe from fevers . ' " " " Beggars must not be choosers , " said Amyas . So in they went . They towed the ship up about half - a - mile to a ...
... quarter- master , coolly . The captain and master remained at the binnacle watch- ing the compass ; and when the sails were again full , she had broken off two points , and the point of land was only a little on the lee - bow . " We ...