Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine Sketches

This book is about idylls—little pictures—which can be the most vivid things ever written about the sea. The creators of this work, both illustrator and writer, have used the sea as common sailors, and before the mast, really knows it in all its humors. Both of them transport the readers to the very place they describe—not merely handing us a stereoscopic glass in which to observe a well-defined photograph.