bokomslag Great Sea Stories
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French

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  • 238 sidor
  • 2022

...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. ...

  • Författare: Joseph Lewis French
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781636372716
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 238
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-11-11
  • Förlag: Bibliotech Press