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Tales Of The Enchanted Islands Of The Atlantic, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Albert Herter
Tales Of The Enchanted Islands Of The Atlantic, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Albert Herter
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The wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep are a part of the mythical period of American history. The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has always been something especially fascinating about an island amid the ocean. Its very existence has for all explorers an air of magic.
The order of the tales in the present work follows roughly …