Ocean Adventures
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Martingale, Hawser) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Ocean Adventures: Or, Cabin and Forecastle Yarns of Thrilling Incidents The tales of which this volume is composed were mostly written for publication in another form, and have appeared at different times in the columns of the Boston Journal. They were received with favor by the subscribers to that newspaper; and the demand is so often made for more, or for the republication of those which have already been laid before the public, that the author has consented to prepare for publication a volume of these "Salt Water Bubbles," carefully revised, with emendations and additions. There is a sort of romance connected with adventures on the sea, or anything pertaining to a nautical life, which, perhaps, exists more in imagination than in fact; and to this, I am aware, may be attributed, to a certain extent, the popularity which these tales have acquired. It was my aim, when preparing them for publication, to furnish faithful pictures of nautical life, of scenes on shipboard, and sketches of the character of the sailor in the American merchant service during the first quarter of the present century. That the nautical details relative to the scenes and incidents described in these stories are accurate, I believe will not be questioned, any more than the fidelity of the pictures drawn of life in the forecastle or the cabin, among those real "web-footed old salts," who navigated and manned our merchant ships thirty years ago. It may be urged that the language of the sailors who figure in these "Bubbles" is of a less technical, profane, and otherwise objectionable character than is generally ascribed to the men who pass their lives on the ocean. Many believe that every sentence uttered by a sailor when afloat smacks strongly of tar or pitch; that every third word is a puzzler to a landsman, or of a character to shock his sense of propriety and decency; and that his whole dialect is so peculiar that it cannot be understood by the uninitiated without the help of an elaborate vocabulary. 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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