The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander Contributor(s): Stockton, Frank Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1515217744 ISBN-13: 9781515217749 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Physical Information: 0.15" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.24 lbs) 74 pages |
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Publisher Description: I was on a French steamer bound from Havre to New York, when I had a peculiar experience in the way of a shipwreck. On a dark and foggy night, when we were about three days out, our vessel collided with a derelict--a great, heavy, helpless mass, as dull and colorless as the darkness in which she was enveloped. We struck her almost head on, and her stump of a bowsprit was driven into our port bow with such tremendous violence that a great hole--nobody knew of what dimensions--was made in our vessel |