'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales

'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales

'Twixt Land & Sea: TalesEver since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided...
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Author: Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924
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Language: English
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'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales

'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales

$98.46 $49.20

'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales

$98.46 $49.20
Author: Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924
Format: eBook
Language: English

'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales

Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it as the Pearl of the Ocean. Well, let us call it the Pearl. Its a good name. A pearl distilling much sweetness upon the world. This is only a way of telling you that first-rate sugar-cane is grown there. All the population of the Pearl lives for it and by it. Sugar is their daily bread, as it were. And I was coming to them for a cargo of sugar in the hope of the crop having been good and of the freights being high. Mr. Burns, my chief mate, made out the land first; and very soon I became entranced by this blue, pinnacled apparition, almost transparent against the light of the sky, a mere emanation, the astral body of an island risen to greet me from afar. It is a rare phenomenon, such a sight of the Pearl at sixty miles off. And I wondered half seriously whether it was a good omen, whether what would meet me in that island would be as luckily exceptional as this beautiful, dreamlike vision so very few seamen have been privileged to behold. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1055
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Release Date: Sep 1, 1997
Format: eBook
Language: English

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