The Sunken Rock: A Tale of the Mediterranean (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Tm: Mediterranean Sea occupies that place in maritime life which it does in geography. Its as sociations are all of the earth and of worldly things you enter and leave it as if by a gate, between those Pillars of Hercules, beyond which all were unknown waters to the ancients. It has none of that grave, mysterious earnestness which belongs to the great ocean, with its protracted solitudes, its nameless conflicts, its dangers unforeseen. To the present day, in truth, the open main and this miniature remain in strong contrast as two sep arate schools of experience: for from the sunny rock of Gibraltar to the black and roaring Euxine, the Mediterranean mariner is at best but a coast er or ferryman, a child of luck or superstition, an animal at once simple and cunning - volupta ous like the Italian and Spaniard, or savage like the Greek, the Moor, and the Turk: in short, to use the graphic idiom of a nautical wit, your mariner is always next door to a marine. He still steers literally by the stars, without need of compass, quadrant, or chronometer, dodging from.

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