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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... waves , which poured in one continual torrent from the forecastle down upon the decks below . Four men were secured to the wheel the sailors were obliged to cling to prevent being washed away the ropes were thrown in confusion to ...
... wave , I thought that our main yard - arm would have touched the rock ; and at this moment a gust of wind came on , which laid the ship on her beam - ends , and checked her progress through the water , while the accumulating noise was ...
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... wave , as it usually does , but smoothed away under the lee of a small sandy promontory that ran out into the sea , about half a cable's length to windward , and then slid up the smooth white sand without breaking , in a deep clear ...