“Shells fell upon her like hailstones, sweeping her decks, crashing into her sides.... She was on fire”
THE BOY’S BOOK OF
THE SEA
BY
ERIC WOOD
Author of “The Boy’s Book of Heroes,” “The Boy Scouts’ Roll of Honour,”
etc., etc.
WITH FOUR COLOUR PLATES AND TWELVE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE
NEW YORK
FUNK AND WAGNALLS COMPANY
Contents
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| Naval Warfare—Old and New | 1 |
| A comparison of ancient and modern naval warfare is most interesting, and here, in the stories of the Battles of Trafalgar and the Bight of Heligoland, the comparison—nay, contrast—is particularly striking. | |
| The Men who Discovered the World | 29 |
| The men who ventured forth on the unknown seas laid the foundations of nations and commerce, and opened up new worlds; and the stories of their voyages are amongst the finest in the world’s history. | |
| Some Early Buccaneers | 45 |
| The glamour of romance has been thrown around the buccaneers, and not unjustly, for anything more romantic—not to say exciting—it would be hard to imagine than the story of those men who, from being hunters of wild animals, became scourers of the seas: heroic ruffians! | |
| Morgan: Buccaneer and Governor | 57 |
| Sir Henry Morgan, most renowned of the buccaneers, was a born leader of men and a doer of mighty deeds. He would have made a capital admiral or general; as it was, he was merely a buccaneer, who later forsook that profession for the safer one of Governor of Jamaica. | |
| Under the Jolly Roger | 76 |
| Who has not read with many a thrill the imaginative stories of pirates? But no novelist can conceive anything more dramatic than the deeds of the real pirates whose tales are told here. | |
| Blockade Running | 94 |
| For peril, adventure, and courage blockade running would be difficult to beat, and the man who succeeds in slipping through earns all the money that he gets.... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |