Many Celebrities And A Few Others A Bundle Of Reminiscences Illustrated

Author : William H. Rideing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331067146
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Many Celebrities and a Few Others written by William H. Rideing and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Many Celebrities and a Few Others: A Bundle of Reminiscences As a beginning, let me recall the famous old seaport in which he was born. Whole neighbourhoods of that town were inhabited by sea-faring people and the commonest talk was about ships. The granite basins of the docks, the finest in the world, were full of them in shapes that steam was only beginning to displace: clippers and other full-rigged craft, barques and barkentines, brigs and brigantines, trafficking with the ends of the earth, all smelling of tea, coffee, palm oil, sugar, spice, hides, cocoanuts, cotton, spruce or pine. They came in on an eighteen-foot tide and departed on the flood with their crews singing chanties as they trotted round the old-fashioned, handle-barred capstan. The steam windlass was in the future, and the captain, and the men too, would have looked upon the auxiliary engine with as much disdain as upon kid gloves and scented handkerchiefs. Gales were always blowing and when the moon was out it appeared to be whirling like a silvered cannon ball through the amber and dove-coloured clouds. 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.