A child under sail
by Elizabeth Linklater
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It is a story of considerable interest and some small historical value. It does not compete with any of the major narratives of the sea, but it is supplementary to them in its relation of the domestic detail of a ship and in the occasional light it throws on the temper of the men and the conditions of their life.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1938
- Epigraph
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- Dedication
- To my grandchildren
Sally, Bobby and Kristin - First words
- My maternal grandfather was a tallish lean old man, brown-faced, with small blue eyes, a nose like a kestrel's beak, and a tuft of hair like a plume at the top of his forehead.
Foreword, by Eric Linklater, 1938.
'Good-bye, William. Don't forget to buy writing paper!'
Chapter I. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And now, as I write these last sentences, a terrific gale is blowing, hail and rain are lashing my windows, the glass is not falling in a reasonable way, but tumbling down, and I feel that at any moment I might hear the shout, 'All hands shorten sail!'
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- English
- Disambiguation notice
- First published 1938; first published in the Mariners Library 1949.
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