Sargasso Sea and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Sargasso Sea and Other Stories Westward from the Azores and northward from the Canaries, Sargasso Sea lies - "the port of missing ships" - a vast expanse of green islets and islands and continents. Weed shows green like emeralds and rises out of the water like the grass of a meadow trailing to the wind. It might be a newborn continent, or an old, forgotten one, so far does it stretch and so lonely is it. Brendan, the Irish saint and mariner, on his way westward searching for Paradise, returned after ploughing for one day through it. "A barren place it seemed to him," the folk stories say - "without music, without company, without wrestling and mellow ale; a prison for lost souls. "And this vast meadow of green weed - beneath which lost Atlantis sleeps - was, according to old Punic writers, a great trap set by malign gods jealous of the explorations of men. They spoke of it as drawing the ships of the African mariners into it as by a magnet. Even great galleys, with two banks of oars, could do nothing against it. The men strained and tottered and died at their posts. The galleys lay lifeless and silent, like an old captain´s fancy on his green lawn. And then, at first little by little and then faster and faster, great trailing weeds crept over it with the tortuous motions of snakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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