A Story of Land and Sea. Lord Dunsany
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- Издательство: Ingram(2020)
- ISBN: 9781515400561
- Страниц: 33
- Язык: Английский
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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.