Author: John R. Spears

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-03

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780484557412

Excerpt from Master Mariners This volume is to tell what the men of the sea, the Master Mariners, have done for humanity what part they have had in the development of civilization. In the preparation of the work it was necessary to search from the earliest records which scholars have agreed to call history to the latest newspaper report of a disheartening disaster at sea; for even in the picture writings upon the monuments of Egypt there are stories of the Master Mariners. The fact that those stories were thus preserved shows not only that they were interesting but that the recorders thought them valuable. In this view modern students concur. The stories of the mariners who rowed and sailed the seas in those days yet stir the blood. Fancy the courage of the men who first. Rounded the continent of Africa and of those who sailed forth to people the islands of the Pacific! At sea, as the facts demonstrate, every phase of courage has been cultivated; and of all the attri butes of the mind none is more necessary in the work of civilization than courage. 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.