Excerpt from A Son of the Sea Never unkind to him, never came back reeling and tottering and using horrible words as he saw the other women doing so often. And although she never made a fuss of him or talked to him much, he looked upon her as the best person in the world; while a few poor odds and ends in the little room, kept very clean and in neat order, seemed to him like the furniture of a palace. For young as he was, he felt rather than knew that his lot was far better and happier than that of most of his play-fellows, and knew too that it was through no fault of Granny's that he spent so many hours in the streets. One thing more, although the talk of everybody. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Sons of the Sea Kings The framework of this romantic tale of ancient Iceland is constructed on the basis of the Sagas dealing with events which occurred in that country at the end of the tenth century and the dawn of the eleventh. Kiartan, our hero, claimed descent from no less a person than Olaf the White, who was first of the Northmen to make of Dublin a royal burg for a line of Sea-Kings. In 872 Olaf the White fell in battle. His widow, Unn, or Audun as she is sometimes called, went to Scotland, where her son, Thorstein the Red, held sway. He, too, fell fighting, and Unn being obliged to leave the country took ship for Iceland, where many highborn Norse settlers had gone, to avoid the over-masterful rule of Harold Fair-Hair. Other dwellers had been there before the vikings' coming: fishers first, then Irish hermits with cross and book, men of peace seeking lonely lands, that they might give more thought to God and the hereafter; but as a flock of crows will scatter when a lordly eagle wings its way towards them, so fled those hermits, before the Norsemen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Child of the Sea: And Other Poems Stray through those valleys of perpetual bloom; Where hideous War and Murder from their lair, Stalk forth in awful and terrific gloom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Decades before beginning his work on natural philosophy, a young Walter Russell self-published his very first book, The Sea Children. A collection of adventures that loving cast the children in his own life as princes and princesses of the ocean - fighting battles, discovering treasure, and exploring their underwater world. Restored page-by-page from a Library of Congress archival scan and printed on large 8.5" x 11" pages, the stories and illustrations of The Sea Children come alive again for the first time since its original publication in 1901.

Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early childhood in a castle by the sea in Wales and the joys and pangs of childhood, to her tragic estrangement from the king and her death in Paris at the age of twenty-eight, Lucy Walter lived to the full a life of intense joy and equally intense drama. Miss Goudge portrays brilliantly a young love almost too ecstatic to bear. Equally moving is her characterization of Lucy—a spirited woman caught up in the cataclysmic wars and disruptive revolution of a tumultuous era. From London at the time of the Great Fire, to Paris when British royalty fled to the sanctuary of the Louvre, to Brussels and The Hague and a rich panoramic background—a master storyteller traces the life and loves of an extraordinary woman. The Child from the Sea is a superbly colorful and romantic historical novel alive with brilliant cameos and infused with a spiritual essence rare in our times.

Excerpt from Arthur Montague or an Only Son at Sea, Vol. 2 of 3 Pray be seated I said a sprightly look ing person about twenty, with a golden patch on the upright collar of his jacket. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tells the story of Old Lady who returns to swallow a number of sea creatures increasing in size.