“One place like another.
That was true enough, he thought. Even the merchant seamen were the same. Every ship was the last. One more voyage, just enough pay and bounty saved, and it would be used to buy a little alehouse, a chandlery, a smallholding from some country squire.
But it never seemed to happen, unless the man was thrown on the beach in peacetime, or rejected as a useless cripple. The sea always won in the end."
12 comments:
Patrick O'Brien?
Sorry not so high brow.
A much better author of Napoleonic sea stories with a much bigger list.
Pft, lemme think.
Trollop?
Well, anyway, I meant the guy who wrote AA...who is not Trollop!
I'll program myself to dream the answer...bonsoir.
I got nuthin'.
Is this the guy who wrote the Captain Horatio Hornblower books?
Ohhhhhhm let me guess!! A Manic Pixie Dreams of Gallant Company?
Good quote, Trooper. The sea might always win, but sometimes there's a story told that extends beyond the foam.
I'm with ricpic.
Me, too. I was thinking that Anthony Adverse, which I have read, and Horatio Hornblower, which I have not, were by the same author...neither of which I knew.
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