Forgotten Songs and Stories of the Sea A Treasury of Voices from our Maritime Past【電子書籍】[ Caroline Rochford ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A collection of fascinating folklore and maritime trivia about pirates, explorers, naval battles, shipwrecks, sea monsters, and more.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Stirring tales of heroism at sea have been ingrained in the annals of maritime history from time immemorial. Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World, Queen Elizabeth I's defeat of the Spanish Armada, and Horatio Nelson's victory at Trafalgar are just some of Britain's most memorable naval triumphs. But what about the lesser-known tales from its seafaring past?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Victorian who invented a swimming machine in order to cross the English Channel; the capture of a real-life mermaid; the lost pirate treasure of Alborn; the ghost of a murdered sailor who still haunts the streets of Portsmouth; and the daring explorers who vanished into the blue yonder, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic message in a champagne bottleーthese are just some of the quirky naval stories that have been chronicled in verse and archived in n．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る