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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... yards at once , there ap- peared to be doubt or dissent on the countenance of Mr. Falcon ; and I was afterwards told that he had not agreed with the captain ; but he was too good an officer , and knew that there was no time for ...
... yards from the rocks , at the time that the ship passed abreast of them . We were in the midst of the foam , which boiled around us ; and as the ship was driven nearer to them , and careened with the wave , I thought that our main yard ...
... yards of the counter , when another gust of wind laid us on our beam - ends , the foresail and mainsail split , and were blown clean out of the bolt - ropes the ship righted , trembling fore and aft . I looked astern : the rocks were to ...