Spindrift
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Callender, Geoffrey) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Spindrift: Salt From the Ocean of English Prose This book is not a volume of Sea Prose or of Seamen´s Prose. Such a book, if compiled, would be found on inspection to be stuffed with quaint words and larded with strange oaths. To some the dish might prove not unpalatable. Indeed it is probable- that Ned Ward dissector of The Wooden World, Parson Teonge the naval Diarist, and Jack Nastyface the unraveller of Nautical Economy, might attract a wider audience to-day than they could draw from their own generation. But the passages here presented are the traffics of authors on the ocean ways, not the wanderings of seafarers in the thorny labyrinths of language. The present anthology, it is hoped, may help in some measure to show how the masters of English Prose have been affected by the sea; how soon they waked responsive to its influence; how faithfully they have pictured it in storm and calm; how skilfully they have used it for stage effect or to create an atmosphere; how deeply they have plumbed its sundering floods; how subtly they have been lured by the spell of its colour or the thrall of its music; how far they have followed like mendicant sea-gulls in the wake of its painted ships. Some men of letters have at best betrayed a casual or curious interest in the subject. Some with contemptuous deliberation have passed it by on the other side. Some in their environment have found no occasion for so much as a passing reference to it. 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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