Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches
Author: first_name: Frank Thomas
last_name: Bullen
Language: English
Year: 1900

In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me. (Author’s Preface)  His whales and sharks and other monsters of the deep are creatures with whom one is proud to be associated.  These Idylls—little pictures—strike me as some of the most vivid things ever written about the sea. I take it that onl