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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... sight was more dreadful than the noise . For a few minutes I shut my eyes , but anxiety forced me to open them again . As near as I could judge , we were not twenty yards from the rocks , at the time that the ship passed abreast of them ...
... sight truly . A line - of - battle ship led , and two frigates and three sloops of our class were stationed on the outskirts of the fleet , whipping them in , as it were . We made Madeira in fourteen days , looked in , but did not 46 ...
... sight of the bright blue waters of Carlisle Bay , and the smiling fields and tall cocoanut trees of the beautiful island . In a week after we arrived off the east end of Jamaica ; and that same evening , in obe- dience to the orders of ...
... sight there . 66 What do you see aloft ? " repeated Mr. Treenail , while the crew , greatly puzzled , continued to follow my eyes , as they thought , and to stare up into the rigging . " Why , sir , I have thereby got a stiff neck ...
... sight , right ahead of us apparently carrying all sail . A group of officers were on the forecastle with night - glasses , the whole crew being stationed in dark clusters round the guns at quarters . Several of the American skippers ...