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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... career of nearly all kinds of vice , was checked by an interval of lei- surely reflection , and the sense of new duties awakened by the power of natural affections . THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL CAROLINE From " The Red 128 GREAT SEA STORIES.
Joseph Lewis French. THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL CAROLINE From " The Red Rover , " BY JAMES FENNIMORE Cooper O UR watchful adventurer captain was not blind to these ... Wreck of the Royal Caroline From "The Red Rover " BY JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER.
... courses ! " resumed Wilder with the same eloquent calmness of manner . Then , taking another glance at the threatening horizon , he added slowly but with emphasis , " Furl them - furl them both WRECK OF THE ROYAL CAROLINE 131.
... , or what is her draught ! " Ay , " resumed Knighthead , " I call the Caroline fast for an honest trader . There are few square - rigged boats who do not wear the pennants of the king , WRECK OF THE ROYAL CAROLINE 133.
... impulse until her side lay nearly incumbent on the element ; and then , as if the fearful fabric were conscious of its jeopardy , it seemed to lift its reclining masts again , struggling to work WRECK OF THE ROYAL CAROLINE 135.