By Harold Lamb
Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers . . . all have heard the siren name of the ocean, and grasp storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled a few of their so much bold exploits. This unmarried quantity comprises all of Lamb’s historic seafaring tales, drawn from infrequent and fragile pulp magazines. by no means ahead of gathered, those brief tales and novels are a treasure trove of experience. top identified for his stirring stories of Cossacks and crusaders, Lamb was once no stranger to swashbuckling, and his sea tales bring it in buckets. Sail with John Paul Jones as he fights to avoid wasting the crippled Russian fleet from the Turks, one eye continually alert for the knives of his czarist opponents. enterprise around the desolate tract with a lone American on a determined enterprise opposed to the Barbary corsairs. search the Northeast Passage, beset by way of ice, storms, and traitors from inside of, in conjunction with explorer Ralph Thorne. journey the whale street with the Vikings, plying their swords from Iceland to Byzantium. brought through best-selling writer S. M. Stirling, this quantity concludes with a unprecedented behind-the-scenes examine Harold Lamb’s writing secrets and techniques, penned by means of the editor who made him well-known.
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Skal went to the rail, to peer into the darkness. These men carried no torches. But he saw a white-veiled figure emerge from a litter and come down the gangboard. Behind her followed a black slave in the red cloak of the palace guard, and he carried on his shoulder a box. The Vikings stared in silence as if spirits had appeared among them. The guards and slaves departed with the empty litter, and Brian stepped toward the veiled girl, who was now alone. Fiddle Skal heard her speak slowly, as if the Norman tongue were strange to her.
The Caesar asked, staring at something within the rim of the Golden Horn. A secretary came to the window, standing respectfully behind him. Below them extended the imperial gardens, and-beyond a guarded wall-the jetties crowded with galleys and trading vessels. In a private anchorage lay the Caesar's barge, gilded and carpeted and canopied, with space for forty rowers. Upon this barge he was accustomed to journey up the Bosporus or to cross over to Chalcedon-even to take pleasure trips out to the islands.
These brought neither cattle nor barrels with them. Instead they carried arms of sorts, and a few wore mail. A broad figure with a gray beard strode before them, bearing sword and shield. " "Keep to the ship," said the Red Elf, "and the iron will not harm ye. " Karli went back over the plank with his shield and spear, and the small casket that held his bride-gift tied to his belt. But he carried also a pair of lengths of wood, seasoned ash, each as broad as his hand and each curved over gracefully at one end.