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Saunterings

By Charles Dudley Warner

2019-10-24 17:08:41

Brief Extract: I confess to have been deceived about this Atlantic, the roughest and windiest of oceans. If you look at it on the map, it does n't appear to be much, and, indeed, it is spoken of as a ferry. What with the eight and nine days' passages ... Read more
Brief Extract: I confess to have been deceived about this Atlantic, the roughest and windiest of oceans. If you look at it on the map, it does n't appear to be much, and, indeed, it is spoken of as a ferry. What with the eight and nine days' passages over it, and the laying of the cable, which annihilates distance, I had the impression that it's tedious three thousand and odd miles had been, somehow, partly done away with; but they are all there. Less

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File size220.107 KB
Print pages300
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2015-12-05
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1358160844
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently,...

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