Far-wandering junks
There's some historical truth in the far-wandering junks - until they decided to give it up more than a half...
Foreign-going steamship
All the romance and none of the hardship in these three words.
Source: Arthur Ransome, Coot Club
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The tide running with you and the sun out
How many times I've read about exploration, about getting in a boat or a ship and chancing it, and yet...
And now for the news
A vivid image of a girl running to bring the latest news, like a French frigate sailing in.Â
Beguildy...
Fast and strong
Three triologisms to describe the fine, fast, strong ships that brought the Greeks to Troy. I particularly like 'sea-wandering'. May you be...
Wide-cheeked monster
Orlando accompanies his beloved Sasha back to the Muscovite ship, and soon loses her below deck. When searching for her,...
How to build a library … Alexandrian style
The Library of Alexandria had 30-50 state-funded scholars and agents scouring the Mediterranean for new books. Â It's believed that...
Many-coloured icicles
The Muscovite Embassy includes the young woman who captures Orlando's heart. The idea of icicles being 'many-coloured' is intriguing, perhaps...
It would have felt good
A persistent question when I read or think about the past, is 'how did they feel?'Â Â What was the tint...
A sense of happiness in the light of spring
What a beautiful corrective lens for the 'nasty, short and brutish' view of distant human lives. I did not realise...
Tempest-haunting birds
I picture scurf-surfing cormorants and carrion birds buffeted by winds in anticipation of sailors' corpses washing up on the wind-blasted...
Of beetle fragments and spider tunnels
What an intricate way to describe a shipwreck pulled apart by tidal ebb and flow. It also reminds me of...
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