' Twixt land and sea

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.

subjects: English Short stories,  English Sea stories,  Classic Literature,  Fiction,  Collected works,  English fiction,  Roman anglais,  Conto Ingles,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Children's fiction,  Adventure and adventurers, fiction,  Book jackets,  Specimens

People: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)