| Author: | Lord Dunsany | ISBN: | 9781515400561 |
| Publisher: | Wilder Publications, Inc. | Publication: | July 17, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Positronic Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN: | 9781515400561 |
| Publisher: | Wilder Publications, Inc. |
| Publication: | July 17, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Positronic Publishing |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
