| The Isle of Unrest Contributor(s): Merriman, Henry Seton (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 142180140X ISBN-13: 9781421801407 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.91 lbs) 324 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The afternoon sun was lowering towards a heavy bank of clouds hanging still and sullen over the Medite-rranean. A mistral was blowing. The last yellow rays shone fiercely upon the towering coast of Corsica, and the windows of the village of Olmeta glittered like gold. There are two Olmetas in Corsica, both in the north, both on the west coast, both perched high like an eagle's nest, both looking down upon those lashed waters of the Mediterranean, which are not the waters that poets sing of, for they are as often white as they are blue; they are seldom glassy except in the height of summer and sailors tell that they are as treacherous as any waters of the earth. Neither aneroid nor weather-wisdom may, as a matter of fact, tell when a mistral will arise, how it will blow, how veer, how drop and rise, and drop again. For it will blow one day beneath a cloudless sky, lashing the whole sea white like milk, and blow harder to-morrow under racing clouds. |
