FIVE YARNS OF THE SEA
THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION. By Capt. W. B. Whall. (Sampson Low. 16s.)
CAPTAIN W. B. WHALL is a man who knew his job and loved it all his days, and the fruit of his love is manifest in his book. Apart from his sea service he has read and studied his subject deeply, and has woven the lives, aims, and achievements of the great navigators into a continuous story without a dull moment in it. He starts with King Amraphel of Shinar, Genesis XIV, who made the first known navigation laws, and he continues with tales of privateers, smugglers, slavers, buc- caneers. hidden treasure, the Arctic and Antarctic, flags and chanties. These and many other subjects are handled in such a way- that willy-nilly you must go a-roving in such company to
the end. The illustrations arc worthy of the book, and there is a first-class index.
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