Flotsam and Jetsam
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Bowles, Thomas Gibson) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Flotsam and Jetsam: A Yachtsman´s Experiences at Sea and Ashore I do not pretend to be a sailor - none but a sailor knows how much that word means - but I love the Sea. From my boyhood (I once ran away to go to sea, but was captured and ignominiously brought back when well on my way to Liverpool) I have sought to learn sea-lore; and I have now learned how little I know of it. But seafaring has become, and still is, to me, a school, a consolation, and a refuge from the trivialities, the meannesses, and the confusions of land life. The grand, solemn, serious Sea, so exacting yet so loving, so remorseless yet so kindly, always reminds me - sometimes when I have well-nigh forgotten it - that there are real things in the world as well as unreal phrases; plain duties as well as doubtful opinions; proved methods as well as shifting speculations, philosophies, and policies. So it is that these writings arose. I did not set out to make a book. I did think these thoughts, such as they are, and see these things, and simply set them down as they came to me. They are not mere inventions; they are the expression of what was struck out of me in the conflict between the realities of the Sea and the fancies of the shore. This is my only excuse for them. 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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