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- Author: Joseph Lewis French
- Publisher: Bibliotech Press
- ISBN-10: 1636372716
- ISBN-13: 9781636372716
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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...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. ...
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- Author: Joseph Lewis French
- Publisher: Bibliotech Press
- ISBN-10: 1636372716
- ISBN-13: 9781636372716
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
...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. ...
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