Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332612574
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from The Works of Washington Irving, Vol. 2 It is the object of the following work, to relate the deeds and fortunes of the mariner who first had the judgment to divine, and the intrepidity to brave the mysteries of this perilous deep and who. By his hardy genius, his inflexible constancy, and his heroic courage, brought the ends of the earth into communication with each other. The nar rative of his troubled life is the link which connects the history of the old world with that of the new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.