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Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches

Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches

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Number of Chapters: 31

Length: 07 hours and 22 minutes

Language: English

In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me. (Author’s Preface) His whales and sharks and other monsters of the deep are creatures with whom one is proud to be associated. These Idylls—little pictures—strike me as some of the most vivid things ever written about the sea. I take it that only a man who has used the sea as a common sailor, and before the mast, really knows it in all its humours,… It is not conventionally that I have called Mr. Bullen’s work “vivid.” It is of writing such as his that we can say, and say truly: “I watch no longer—I myself am there.”… In spite of the fact that he knows so much science, and makes so keen and convincing a use of this knowledge, there is always an air of mystery and enchantment about his writing…. that a sense of something strange and fateful, and so fascinating, haunts his pictures of the sea. (Introduction) [Bullen (1857 - 1915)] led a roving and adventurous life from quite an early age, and many of the most thrilling episodes in his books were records of his own experiences. After various adventures on shore he went to sea in 1869, and for some years roughed it in various capacities in the merchant service, suffering great hardships, as vividly described in The Log of a Sea Waif and other books. (Royal Geographic Society Obituary, 1915) - Summary by David Wales

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Dedication, Preface, and Introduction (David Wales)
The Passing Of Peter (David Wales)
The Loss Of The First-Born (David Wales)
A True Shark-Story (David Wales)
The Slaver (David Wales)
The Cruise Of The 'Daisy' (David Wales)
'Running The Easting Down' (David Wales)
In The Crow's Nest (David Wales)
The Birth Of An Island (David Wales)
A Submarine Earthquake (David Wales)
The Silent Warfare Of The Submarine World (David Wales)
An Effect Of Refraction (David Wales)
A Waking Nightmare (David Wales)
The Derelict (David Wales)
Some Oceanic Birds (David Wales)
The Kraken (David Wales)
Concerning Sharks (David Wales)
Flying-Fish Catching At Barbados (David Wales)
Unconventional Fishing (David Wales)
Devil-Fish (David Wales)
Of Turtle (David Wales)
'Hovelling' (David Wales)
The Loss Of The 'St. George' (David Wales)
The Truth About The Merchant Service (David Wales)
Cancer Cay (David Wales)
A Nineteenth-Century Jonah (David Wales)
The Tragical Tale Of The Boomerang Pig (David Wales)
A Day On The Solander Whaling-Ground (David Wales)
Sea-Elephants At Home (David Wales)
An Interview (David Wales)
Up A Waterspout (David Wales)
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