Great Sea Stories - Joseph Lewis French - Boeken - Bibliotech Press - 9781636372709 - 11 november 2022
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French

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Great Sea Stories

... 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 Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 11 november 2022
ISBN13 9781636372709
Uitgevers Bibliotech Press
Pagina's 236
Afmetingen 152 × 229 × 15 mm   ·   290 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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