The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange Surroundings

Albert Bigelow Paine

J. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 páginas

Índice

• CHAPTER PAGR I Answer to an Old Summons: 5
• Renew an Old Dream: 7
• Even Seeking to Realize: 11
• Turning to the Sea at Last for Solace: 15
• Overhaul the Steam Yacht Billowcrest: 20
• Where All Things Become Possible: 49
• Learn the Way of the Sea and Enter More Fully Into My Heritage: 59
• The Halcyon Way to the South: 70
• Admonition and Counsel: 76
• Captain Biffer is Assisted by the Pampeiro: 86
• In Gloomy Seas: 95
• Where Captain Biffer Revises Some Opinions: 99
• In the FightingTop: 106
• An Excursion and an Experiment: 115
• XV As Reported by My NoteBook: 121
• Following the Pacemaker: 134
• Investigation and Discovery: 146
• A Borning and a Mystery: 150
• A Long Farewell: 154
• The Long Dark: 174
• An Arrival and a Departure: 183
• On the AirLine South: 190
• CHAPTER PAGR XXIII The Cloudcrest Makes a Landing: 199
• The Great White Way: 209
• Where the Way Ends: 215
• The Welcome to the Unknown: 223
• The Prince of the Purple Fields: 228
• A Harbor of Forgotten Dreams: 235
• A Land of the Hearts Desire: 243
• The Lady of the Lilies: 249
• The Pole at Last: 253
• An Offering to the Sun: 264
• The Touch of Life: 269
• The Pardon of Love: 279
• Down the River of Coming Dark: 290
• The Passage of the Dead: 293
• The Rising Tide: 301
• Storm and Stress: 305
• Where Dreams Become Real: 315
• Claiming the Reward: 322

Passagens conhecidas

Página 313 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...

Página 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

Página 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange Surroundings
• Autor: Albert Bigelow Paine
• Editora: J. F. Taylor, 1901
• Original de: Universidade de Harvard
• Digitalizado: 20 Nov 2007
• ISBN: 0848820118, 9780848820114
• Número de páginas: 323 páginas