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Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine Sketches

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine Sketches

Frank Thomas Bullen and John St. Loe Strachey

232 pages~4 hr 38 min read44 chapters$4.99
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Life at sea breeds its own strange beauty and sudden danger. Frank Bullen gathers his marine sketches, from a true shark story to the cruise of the Daisy and long watches in the crow's nest. Salt-stained storytelling from a sailor who knew the ocean firsthand. For the reader drawn to the sea, its creatures, and the men who worked it. Cast off into these ocean tales.

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44 chapters

  1. 1IDYLLS OF THE SEA
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3INTRODUCTION
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5IDYLLS OF THE SEA
  6. 6I THE PASSING OF PETER
  7. 7II THE LOSS OF THE FIRST-BORN
  8. 8III A TRUE SHARK-STORY
  9. 9IV THE SLAVER
  10. 10V THE CRUISE OF THE ‘DAISY’
  11. 11VI ‘RUNNING THE EASTING DOWN’
  12. 12VII IN THE CROW’S NEST
  13. 13VIII THE BIRTH OF AN ISLAND
  14. 14IX A SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKE
  15. 15X THE SILENT WARFARE OF THE SUBMARINE WORLD
  16. 16XI AN EFFECT OF REFRACTION
  17. 17XII A WAKING NIGHTMARE
  18. 18XIII THE DERELICT

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