A Story of Land and Sea
Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
| Author: | Lord Dunsany | ISBN: | 9781681463100 |
| Publisher: | Start Publishing LLC | Publication: | August 24, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Start Publishing LLC | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN: | 9781681463100 |
| Publisher: | Start Publishing LLC |
| Publication: | August 24, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Start Publishing LLC |
| Language: | English |
It was not age that caused him to leave his romantic profession; nor unworthiness of its traditions, nor gun-shot wound, nor drink; but grim necessity and force majeure. Five navies were after him. How he gave them the slip one day in the Mediterranean, how he fought with the Arabs, how a ship's broadside was heard in Lat. 23 N. Long. 4 E. for the first time and the last, with other things unknown to Admiralties, I shall proceed to tell.
It was not age that caused him to leave his romantic profession; nor unworthiness of its traditions, nor gun-shot wound, nor drink; but grim necessity and force majeure. Five navies were after him. How he gave them the slip one day in the Mediterranean, how he fought with the Arabs, how a ship's broadside was heard in Lat. 23 N. Long. 4 E. for the first time and the last, with other things unknown to Admiralties, I shall proceed to tell.
