SALT IN THEIR TALES.
With Joseph Conrad once again to the fore, says an English writer, one may ask: How many writing men have there been who in earlier days were practical sailors ? Instinctively Captain Marryatt heads the list, and Captain Mayne Reid, both beloved of boyhood's days, had at least one vovage before the mast. William Clark Russell gave personal note in his " Wreck of the Grosvenor" and other sea tales, and the same is true of Morley Roberts in " The Mate of the Vancouver. Cantain Frank Shaw in " A Daughter of the Storm," Frank T. Bullen in "Ihe Cruise of the Cachalot,," and J. E. Pat, terson in " Watchers by the Shore, "Fishers of the Sea," etc., were quite autobiographical
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19496, 27 November 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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122SALT IN THEIR TALES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19496, 27 November 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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