The Mistress Of Quest A Novel Classic Reprint

Author : Jules Verne
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ISBN 13 : 9781332224128
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Mistress Branican (Classic Reprint) written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mistress Branican The Franklin was so well built and efficiently commanded that not a man of her crew would have shipped on another vessel - even with the assurance of obtaining higher pay. All were preparing to start content in their double confidence in a good ship and a good captain. The Franklin was to make her first voyage on behalf of William H. Andrew and Co. of San Diego. She was bound to Calcutta by way of Singapore with a cargo of American goods to return with Indian products to one of the Californian ports. Captain John Branican was a young man of nine and twenty, with an attractive but resolute face, his features telling of unusual energy; he possessed in the highest degree that moral courage so superior to physical courage - that "two o'clock in the morning courage," as Napoleon called it - that is to say, the kind that faces the unexpected and is ready for action at any moment. His head had more character than beauty, with his rough hair, his eyes animated with a keen, frank look which flashed like a dart from their black pupils. It would be difficult to imagine a man of his age more robust in body or constitution. That was clear enough in the vigour of his handshakings which indicated the ardour of his blood and the strength of his muscles. But what we have particularly to note is that the spirit contained in this body of iron was a good and noble spirit, ready to sacrifice its life for its kind. John Branican was of the character of those rescuers whose coolness enables them to perform heroic acts without hesitation. He had given proof of this early in life. One day, among the broken ice of the bay on a capsized boat, he had saved children like himself; and later on he had not belied the instincts of self-sacrifice which had marked his youth. A few years after John Branican had lost his father and his mother, he had married Dolly Starter, an orphan, belonging to one of the best families of San Diego. 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.