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Great Sea Stories
Joseph Lewis French
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. ...
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 11, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781636372716 |
Publishers | Bibliotech Press |
Pages | 238 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |
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