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Excerpts

[The Titanic] was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship
in the world. Even the passengers' dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Astor
had along his airedale Kitty. Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing
family, had his prize Pekingese Sun-Yat-Sen. Rbert W. Daniel, the
Philadelphia banker, was bringing back a champion French bulldog just
purchased in Britain. [p.17, RD GTS]

Decision at Trafalgar, Dudley Pope

A book definitely in the heroic mode, a la John Keegan's
The Face of Battle.  But without a whiff of
heroism, where is the romance in a story?

"Mr. Pasco, I wish to say to the fleet, 'England confides that every
man will do his duty.'" [Since expects was in the vocabulary and
confide would have to be spelt, Lt Pasco sought permission to
substitute expects for confides. The word confides may have had a stronger
association with this earlier meaning were this not the case...]
	[p.321, RD GTS]

Contents

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER by Walter Lord 15
SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD by Captain Joshua Slocum 91
AN ICELAND FISHERMAN by Pierre Loti 179
DECISION AT TRAFALGAR by Dudley Pope 255
SURFACE AT THE POLE by Commander James Calvert, U. S. N. 371
YOUTH by Joseph Conrad 453
THE RA EXPEDITIONS by Thor Heyerdahl 483
THE GREAT WHITE WHALE, from MOBY DICK, by Herman Melville 579