The Merchantman and the Pirate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515401780)

Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire in the sunbeams; the mandarin, in conical and b

Author: Reade Charles
ISBN-10: 1515401782
ISBN-13: 9781515401780
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2015
Pages: 22
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.05d