Deep-Sea Plunderings - Couverture rigide

Bullen, Frank T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0836932889 ISBN 13 : 9780836932881

Editeur : Ayer Co Pub, 1901

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What a clumsy, barrel-bellied old hooker she is, Field! Thus, closing his telescope with a bang, the elegant chief officer of theM irzapore, steel four-masted clipper ship of 5000 tons burden, presently devouring the degrees of longitude that lay between her and Melbourne on the arc of a composite great circle, at the rate of some 360 miles per day. As he spoke he cast his eyes proudly aloft at the splendid spread of square sail that towered upward to a height of nearly 200 feet. Twenty-eight squares of straining canvas, from the courses, stretched along yards 100 feet or so in length, to the far-away skysails of 35 feet head, that might easily be handled by a pair of boys. Truly she made a gallant show the graceful ship, that in spite of her enormous size was so perfectly modelled on yacht-like lines that, overshadowed as she was by the mighty pyramid of sail, the eye refused to convey a due sense of her great capacity.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ayer Co Pub
• Date d'édition: 1901
• ISBN 10: 0836932889
• ISBN 13: 9780836932881
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 361