Author : Nicholas a Draim
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ISBN 13 : 9781331271604
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (716 download)
Book Synopsis A Midsummer's Cruise (Classic Reprint) by : Nicholas a Draim
Download or read book A Midsummer's Cruise (Classic Reprint) written by Nicholas a Draim and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Midsummer's Cruise The days have long since passed by when Blackboards and Captain Kidds haunted the high seas, bringing terror into the hearts of peaceful merchants and travelers. The time is no more when seafaring men told wierd tales of phantom ships, with red sails and ghostly crews, looming up out of the darkness. But the old ocean still holds a part of its romance, and steel ships have not yet driven from its bosom the adventurer and the lighter. It is in an endeavor to preserve a little of the true romance of the sea that this book, based on actual experience during the practice cruise to Europe, is written. The reader who opens these pages expecting to find a carefully worked-out plot with a hero and a villain and thrilling struggles between the two, will be disappointed. Daily life rarely contains a dominating scheme, but is made up of a succession of events upon which we react with sorrow, pleasure, anger, or whatever mood our natures dictate. He who likes to view a cross section of real life and is interested in what his neighbor does and says, will not find this book uninteresting. The real adventurer and the real tighter arc often concealed behind a common exterior, as the reader will see in the course of this story. The places are exactly as described - the men who were shipmates with the author will recognize them. Those on the outside may settle themselves in their easy chairs, become young again in spirit, and sail away with the fleet to Europe. The author wishes to acknowledge the use of valuable material from the various ship's papers, such as the "Klassy K," "The South C Breeze," "The Wolverine." and "The North Star," and particularly the kindness of the photographic staff of the Lucky Bag of 1922 in permitting the use of their pictures for the illustrations. 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.
