EAN13
9791041818013
Éditeur
CULTUREA
Date de publication
26 juin 2023
Nombre de pages
146
Dimensions
21 x 14,8 x 0,8 cm
Poids
199 g
Langue
eng

The Ghost Pirates

William Hope Hodgson

CULTUREA

Prix public : 18,00 €

" He began without any circumlocution. I joined the Mortzestus in 'Frisco. I heard before I signed on, that there were some funny yarns floating round about her; but I was pretty nearly on the beach, and too jolly anxious to get away, to worry about trifles. Besides, by all accounts, she was right enough so far as grub and treatment went. When I asked fellows to give it a name, they generally could not. All they could tell me, was that she was unlucky, and made thundering long passages, and had no more than a fair share of dirty weather. Also, that she had twice had the sticks blown out of her, and her cargo shifted. Besides all these, a heap of other things that might happen to any packet, and would not be comfortable to run into. Still, they were the ordinary things, and I was willing enough to risk them, to get home. All the same, if I had been given the chance, I should have shipped in some other vessel as a matter of preference...."
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