NOTE. A vivid picture of life on shipboard, and a stirring narrative of personal experience. . . . Bishop Potter well says that the book has not a dull line in it. The captain has the art of telling a story in high perfection. — NY Tribune. The story... The Tramp at Home - Page 146by Lee Meriwether - 1889 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
| American literature - 1886 - 802 pages
...ice-floes, and battles with cannibals. Bishop Potter, who pens a short introduction to the narrative, well says that the book has not a dull line in it....has the art of telling a story in high perfection. His account of an escape from a harem in Constantinople, where he aided a Swedish sea-captain to carry... | |
| Henry Rider Haggard - Africa - 1887 - 374 pages
...various incidents, graphically told, could not fail to be interesting." — BISHOP POTTER'S INTRODUCTORY NOTE. A vivid picture of life on shipboard, and a...has not a dull line in it. The captain has the art pf telling a story in high perfection. — NY Tribune. The story is full of interest and excitement.... | |
| Karl Emil Franzos - German fiction - 1888 - 562 pages
...various incidents, graphically told, could not fail to be interesting."—BISHOP POTTIB'S INTRODUCTORY NOTE. A vivid picture of life on shipboard, and a...interest and excitement. ... It is a charming book. —ff. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The book is one of great interest. ... It is the story of a famous... | |
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