The Lost Continent
Book Excerpt: ...have done it a thousand times--but I did not dare submerge the Coldwater for fear that it would remain submerged to the end of time--a condition far from conducive to the longevity of commander or crew.Most of my officers were older men than I. John Alvarez, my first officer, is twenty years my senior. He stood at my side on the bridge as the ship glided closer and closer to those stupendous waves. He watched my every move, but he was by far too fine an officer and gentleman to embarrass me by either comment or suggestion.When I saw that we soon would touch, I ordered the ship brought around broadside to the wind, and there we hovered a moment until a huge wave reached up and seized us upon its crest, and then I gave the order that suddenly reversed the screening force, and let us into the ocean. Down into the trough we went, wallowing like the carcass of a dead whale, and then began the fight, with rudder and propellers, to force the Coldwater back into the teeth of the gale and drive her onClose...
Yazar | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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Yayın Evi | Independently Published |
B. M. Bower Fransızca İspanyolca Almanca Orbit H. G. Wells J.R.R. Tolkien İngilizce İtalyanca F Scott Fitzgerald Independently published Türkçe Edgar Rice Burroughs Blurb CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Lord Dunsany Outlook Verlag Independently Published; Illustrated basım
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Yazar | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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İsbn 13 | 979-8675791651 |
Yayın Evi | Independently Published |
De olduğu gibi | B08KHGDV3P |
tarafından gönderildi The Lost Continent | 2 Ekim 2020 |