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THE TRAGEDY OF IDA NOBLE

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "On Monday, August 8th, 1838, the large bark Ocean Ranger, of which I was second mate, was in latitude 38° 40' N., and longitude 11° W. The hour was four o'clock in the afternoon. I had come on deck to relieve the chief officer, who had had charge of the ship since twelve. It was a very heavy day—a sullen sky of gray vapor seeming to overhang our mastheads within pisto...

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MY DANISH SWEETHEART, A NOVEL VOL.1 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "On the morning of October 21, in a year that one need not count very far back to arrive at, I was awakened from a light sleep into which I had fallen after a somewhat restless night by a sound as of thunder some little distance off, and on going to my bedroom window to take a view of the weather I beheld so wild and forbidding a prospect of sea and sky that the like o...

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STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS, THE SEA

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt from THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A CHIEF MATE BY W. CLARK RUSSELL: "In the newspapers of 1876 appeared the following extracts from the log of a merchantman: "VOLCANIC ISLAND IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. —The ship Hercules, of Liverpool, lately arrived in the Mersey, reports as follows: March 23, in 2 deg. 12' north latitude, 33 deg. 27' west longitude, a shock of earthquak...

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A MARRIAGE AT SEA

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "My dandy-rigged yacht, the Spitfire, of twenty-six tons, lay in Boulogne harbour, hidden in the deep shadow of the wall against which she floated. It was a breathless night, dark despite the wide spread of cloudless sky that was brilliant with stars. It was hard upon the hour of midnight, and low down where we lay we heard but dimly such sounds of life as was still ab...

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THE PHANTOM DEATH, ETC.

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

“No other writer so effectually carries his readers down to the sea in ships, and even in steamers he never fails to give us the true salt atmosphere.... ‘The Lazarette of the Huntress’ is undoubtedly one of the most exciting tales ever written by a past-master in the art of thrilling his readers, while the other ten yarns are all thoroughly interesting.”—MANCHESTER COURIER. Th...

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A BOOK FOR THE HAMMOCK

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "It was a brilliant afternoon. The sunshine in the water seemed to hover there like some flashful veil of silver, paling the azure so that it showed through it in a most delicate dye of cerulean faintness. The light breeze was abeam; yet the ship made a gale of her own that stormed past my ears in a continuous shrill hooting, and the wake roared away astern like the hu...

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THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR, VOL.1 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea." It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell's best selling and mos...

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THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "In the year 1851 there dwelt on the banks of the river Thames a retired tailor, whom I will call John Sloper, out of regard to the feelings of his posterity, if such there be. This man had for many years carried on a flourishing trade in the east end of London. Having got together as much money as he might suppose would supply his daily needs, he built himself a villa...

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THE LAST ENTRY

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON "THE LAST ENTRY" '"The Last Entry" is a rattling good salt-water yarn, told in the author's usual breezy, exhilarating style.'—Daily Mail. 'In this new novel Mr. Russell has cleverly thrown its events into the year 1837, and there are one or two ingenious passages which add to the Diamond Jubilee interest which that date suggests.... "The Last Entry" is...

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THE DEATH SHIP, A STRANGE STORY, VOL.1 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "I will pass by all the explanations concerning the reasons of my going to sea, as I do not desire to forfeit your kind patience by letting this story stand. Enough if I say that after I had been fairly well grounded in English, arithmetic and the like, which plain education I have never wearied of improving by reading everything good that came in my way, I was bound a...

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MY DANISH SWEETHEART, A NOVEL VOL.2 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "I told my story, and the three fellows listened attentively. Their eyes glowed in the lamplight as they stared at me. The weak wind raised a pleasant buzzing noise at the cutwater, and the lugger stole in floating launches through the gloom over the long invisible heave of the Atlantic swell. 'Ah!' said the helmsman, when I had made an end, 'we heerd of that there Tin...

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THE DEATH SHIP, A STRANGE STORY, VOL.2 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "A half-hour passed, and during that time I had sufficiently recovered from the distressful croak of the parrot to wonder, as any sailor would, how the ship was navigated; for I could not doubt that the clock kept pretty close to the true time, since the easting and westing made by the ship was small, never, perhaps, exceeding ten degrees; and the circumstance of noon ...

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THE DEATH SHIP, A STRANGE STORY, VOL.3 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

Excerpt: "I had passed from the deck, where I slept, to the cabin in too great a hurry to notice the weather. Now, reaching the poop, I stood a moment or two to look around, being in my way as concerned about the direction of the wind as Vanderdecken himself. It still blew fresh, but the heavens lay open among the clouds that had thickened their bulk into great drooping shining...

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A TALE OF TWO TUNNELS, A ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN WATERS

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

A tale of intrigue, deceit an villainy set on the rugged coast of Cornwall. It is also a story of a father's love for his daughter who is swept off her feet by an audacious and handsome ship's captain. The story is set against the days of smugglers, Revenue men, pirates and sailing ships. With a red-herring or two thrown in for good measure, this is one of W. Clark Russell's be...

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AN OCEAN TRAGEDY

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

The pursuit of the schooner yacht Shark by the Bride, the yacht of the mad Sir Wilfred, is seagoing writing at its best. Russell's evocation of both calms and storms at sea, and the management of the yacht are educated and expert. Sir Wilfred's wife has run off with the dashing Colonel Hope-Kennedy, and Sir Wilfred means to get her back. This isn't going to be just a confrontat...

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THE FROZEN PIRATE

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

The Frozen Pirate is the story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who narrowly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan. Surmounting that peril, he faces another: Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, filled with what seem to be frozen, contorted corpses. But the ship is a pirate ship, and the corpses aren't dead. When one of them revives, Rodney m...

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THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR, VOL.2 (OF 3)

WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL

The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea." It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell's best selling and mos...

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