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Reproduction of the original: An Ocean Tragedy by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: An Ocean Tragedy by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: William Dampier by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: William Dampier by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: John Holdsworth by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: John Holdsworth by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: Short Story by W. Clark Russell

Reproduction of the original: Short Story by W. Clark Russell

Excerpt from The Romance of Jenny Harlowe, and Sketches of Maritime LifeThe Indian voyage is too hot, said he, for a man in quest of health and who I take it wants his nerves screwed up till they are in tune and fit for life to make pleasant music upon. If you go to India you twice penetrate the broiling parallels of the Equator on your way there, and you risk the sickening stagnation of the Bay of Bengal, but the Australian trip gives you all...

Excerpt from Voyage at AnchorYou have a very good eye for sea effects, said I, laughing. Why, my dear, they are Ships at anchor in the Downs.And are we going to anchor amongst them Why, I never saw so many ships. If we do we shall be knocked down - run into, run over, sunk - no telling indeed. And so much for our holiday!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Excerpt from An Ocean Free-Lance: From a Privateersman's Log, 1812I guessed by your hands that you had been on the sick list, ' said he. They are as thin as a poet's, and, ¿attery apart, your face is as tallowy as a Portugee's. So you are going to look for a ship. As captain 2'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an import...

Excerpt from The Frozen Pirate, Vol. 1 of 2The gale came on with some lightning and several claps of thunder and heavy rain. Though it was but two O'clock in the afternoon, the air was so dusky that the men had to feel for the ropes, and when the first'of the tempest stormed down upon us the appearance of the sea was uncommonly terrible, being swept and mangled into boiling froth in the north-east quarter, whilst all about us and in the south-...

Excerpt from An Ocean Free-Lance, Vol. 3 of 3: From a Privateersman's Log, 1812The southerly wind that had sprung up was very gentle, and being on the quarter, the schooner's progress was slow, and, when the dawn broke, making the horizon a line as black as ink against the ashen sky, the vessel was fully five miles distant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbo...

Excerpt from The British Seas: Picturesque NotesThere is not a tract of water the wide world over fuller of memories, more charged with historic mari time interests, than that little space of Channel sea which washes the fragment of Kentish seaboard, from the foot of the giant sentinel - the South Foreland - to the fast-dissolving relic of Sandown Castle at the north end of the quaint, salt, seething, blowing, and desperately cold old town of ...

Excerpt from Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of EnglandConfidence in young Nelson Examination for lieutenant Captain William Locker - Sickly constitution - Capture of an American letter-of-marque - Career in the West Indies Prince William - Nicaragua expedition - Residence at Bath - A Baltic cruise - Anecdote of the [farmony - Lord Hood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

Excerpt from Representative Actors: A Collection of Criticisms, Anecdotes, Personal Descriptions, Etc, , Etc, , Referring to Many Celebrated British Actors From the Sixteenth to the Present Century, With Notes, Memoirs, and a Short Account of English ActingIN that voluminous history of the stage published by Dibdin in the year 1800, the author, in dealing with the English Drama, descends to so remote a period as the Saxon Hep tatchy, and devot...

Excerpt from Heart of Oak, a Three-Stranded Yarn, Vol. 1 of 3My father sat beside the fire reading a newspaper. His name was Sir Mortimer Otway he was fourth baronet and a colonel, had seen service in India, though he had long left the army to settle down upon his little seaside estate. He was a man of small fortune. Having said this, I need not trouble you with more of his family history.I was his only surviving child, and my name is Marie, I...

Excerpt from The Tale of the Ten, Vol. 2 of 3: A Salt-Water RomanceA very poor average surely, sir, ' said the surgeon. 'how would you have it other~ wise? They get nothing to eat. If it were not for the air they feed on, they'd die.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses st...

Excerpt from The Convict Ship, Vol. 3 of 3BY this time the awning had been spread. In the cuddy a crowd of convicts were roar ing out the chorus Of some vulgar popular song Of that time. Will said We have had nothing to eat. Aren't you hungry?' Here, you!' exclaimed Tom to the fel low at the helm. Jump below to the cuddy and bring us some food and wine to break fast Off. I'll not trust this young gentleman amongst them You're known as a friend...

Excerpt from List, Ye Landsmen: A Romance of IncidentThus in effect thought I, as I stood upon the quarter-deck of the Royal Brunswick, viewing the noble elevation of the white South Foreland Off which_ the ship was then leisurely rolling as she ¿apped her way to the Downs with her yards squared to the weak westerly breeze, for - to take you into my confidence at once - this part of the coast of Old England I had the best of all reasons for lo...