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Great Sea Stories
Joseph Lewis French
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Great Sea Stories
Joseph Lewis French
... 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."...
Media | Kirjat Paperback Book (Kirja pehmeillä kansilla ja liimatulla selällä) |
Julkaisupäivämäärä | perjantai 11. marraskuuta 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781636372709 |
Tuottaja | Bibliotech Press |
Sivujen määrä | 236 |
Mitta | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 290 g |
Kieli | English |
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