A Book for the Hammock

A Book for the Hammock

A Book for the HammockThe reader will please regard these papers as the mere whiskings of a...
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Author: Russell, William Clark,1844-1911
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Language: English
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A Book for the Hammock

A Book for the Hammock

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A Book for the Hammock

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Russell, William Clark,1844-1911
Format: eBook
Language: English

A Book for the Hammock

The reader will please regard these papers as the mere whiskings of a petrels pinions skimming the blue surge of deep waters. The utmost hope of the author goes no further than that here and there something may be found to pleasantly lighten the tedium of a sleepless half-hour in the bunk or hammock, or relieve the dulness of a spell of quarter-deck lounging. The articles are reprinted from The Daily Telegraph, The Gentlemans Magazine, The Contemporary Review, and Longmans Magazine. It would have been troublesome to disturb the original text, and some new matter, therefore, has been included in the form of notes. I asked myself the question one day whilst standing on the bridge of one of the handsomest and stoutest of the Union Companys steamboats, outward bound to the Cape of Good Hope, What has become of the old romance of the sea? It was a brilliant afternoon. The sunshine in the water seemed to hover there like some flashful veil of silver, paling the azure so that it showed through it in a most delicate dye of cerulean faintness. The light breeze was abeam; yet the ship made a gale of her own that stormed past my ears in a continuous shrill hooting, and the wake roared away astern like the huddle of foaming waters at the foot of a high cataract. On the confines of the airy cincture that marked the junction of sea and sky gleamed the white pinions of a little barque. The fabric, made fairy-like by distance, shone with a most exquisite dainty distinctness in the lenses of the telescope I levelled at it. The vessel showed every cloth she had spars and booms for, and leaned very lightly from the wind, and hung like a star in the sky. But our tempestuous 2passage of thirteen knots an hour speedily slided that effulgent elfin structure on to our quarter, where she glanced a minute or two like a wreath of mist, a shred of light vapour, and then dissolved. What has become, thought I, of the old romance of the sea? The vanished barque and the resistless power underneath my feet, shaking to the heart the vast metal mass that it was impelling, symbolized one of the most startling realities of modern progress. In sober truth, the propeller has sent the poetry of the deep swirling astern. It is out of sight. Nay, the demon of steam has possessed with its spirit the iron interior of the sailing ship, and from the eyes of the nautical occupants of that combination of ore and wire the glory and the dream, that ocean visionary life which was the substance and the soul of the sea-calling of other days, has faded as utterly as it has from the confined gaze of the sudorific fiends of the engine-room. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61207
Author: Russell, William Clark
Release Date: Jan 20, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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