LAND AND LEE IN THE BOSPHORUS AND AEGEAN

Παρουσίαση

In launching this volume upon the wave of public opinion, the publishers deem it proper to say, that although christened with a new name, and dressed in a new robe like the neophytes of a new religion, it is not altogether a new book. It is the substance of a work published during Mr. Colton's life-time, under the title of "Visit to Athens and Constantinople." Having withstood the cross-fires of criticism in a long cruise upon the open Seas, it has come to the dry-dock for repairs ; and it is now razeed into its present dimensions, in order to make one of the gallant fleet of books which sail under the flag of its author.
Another name for this work was naturally suggested to the mind of the Editor, as more truly expressing the subject-matter of the book, and as being also more in keeping with the previous volume of "Ship and Shore". The editorial work has been that of revision and condensation. It has been cast up anew into chapters, and supplied with appropriate mottoes indicating the subject of each, and such other matter has been welded with it from manuscripts of the author, as to make it one entire and uniform piece.
The author says of the original pages, that "They were written amid the ceaseless noise and systematized confusion which prevail on board a man-of-war; the lively conversation of the ward-room officers in one ear, the prattle of the pantry boys in the other ; the echoing tread of sailors overhead ; on a table lashed down to prevent its being capsized, in a chair secured with laniards against the force of the ship's lurch, and with the manuscript tacked to its place to escape the fate which befell the Sibylline leaves. This is no fancy picture; any one who has been at sea, and especially they who have traversed the ocean in an armed ship, can attest the sobriety of the sketch, and also appreciate the embarrassments which such a situation imposes. [...] (From the publisher)

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