A swashbuckling collection of sea-bound adventures in the South Pacific.
These stories pull you into vivid coastal worlds where daring, mystery, and a touch of folklore unfold on sunlit lagoons and stormy seas. This edition gathers tales of sailors, traders, and islanders across tropical harbors and remote isles. From bustling villages to quiet coves, the narratives blend action with atmosphere, offering a window into a world of voyage, risk, and discovery—often with a hint of the uncanny.
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Excerpt from From the Four Winds Several appreciative reviewers and readers of my last work "Under North Star and Southern Cross," having expressed a hope that I would write another book on the same lines, set me exploring the picture gallery of my memory, and thereby recalling many a vanished scene and good comrade of the old days. The present volume is the outcome of those memories, and I trust that "From The Four Winds" will not disappoint my kind readers, and indulgent critics. Perhaps it would be as well to explain the origin of the preludes which appear before the stories, and this I will do as briefly as possible. 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.
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