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'Twixt land and sea

'Twixt land and sea

Classics Literary Fiction Action & Adventure Short Stories Sea Stories

Joseph Conrad

Authors: Joseph Conrad
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Ever since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days' passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic of its inhabitants delight in describing it as the Pearl of the Ocean. Well, let us call it the Pearl. It's a good name. A pearl distilling much sweetness upon the world.