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Russell William Clark

William Clark Russell (February 24, 1844 – November 8, 1911) was a popular writer of nautical novels and horror stories. Born in New York City, he gained his experience of sea life during eight years' service as a sailor. Then he was a journalist on the staff of the Daily Chronicle before he took to writing his many novels, only a few of which are listed here. At the beginning of the Sherlock Holmes story, The Five Orange Pips, Doctor Watson is shown 'deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea stories'. William Clark Russell was the son of Henry Russell. His horror work has similarities to the nautical horror stories of William Hope Hodgson. Works Misc

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The Honour of the Flag Series: Unknown Year: Unknown Raiting: 3/5 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A Midnight Visitor. " '"pHERE are more terrors at | sea than shipwreck and fire, more frights and horrors, mateys, than famine, blindness, and cholera," said the old seaman with a slow motion of his eyes round upon the little company of sailors. "I remember a line of poetry'a thing of beauty is a joy for ever.' Can any man here tell me who wrote that? Well, I suppose it is a joy so long as it remains a beauty, but d' ye see it's got to remain, and that's the job. "Yet, mates, if there is a thing of beauty that should be a joy to every heart, it is a full-rigged ship, clothed in white, asleep in the light of the moon, on a pale and silent breast of ocean that waves in splendour under the planet over the flying jibboom end. Have I got such a ship as that in my mind? Ay. And was it a sheet calm but ne'er a moon ? Ay, again. There was ne'er a moon that night. The ship rose faint and hushed to the stars. It was one bell in the morning watch. Scarce air enough moved to give life to the topmost canvas ; as the ship bowed upon the light swell the sails swung in and swung out with a rushing sound of many wings up in the gloom. Yet the vessel had steerage way in that hour. Shall I tell you why ? Because I know! " And ere that full-rigged ship alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean came to a dead halt, life sinking in her with the failing of the wind in a sort of dying shudder from royal to course, this was how her decks showed : a man was at the wheel, the chief mate leaned against the rail in the thickness made by the mizzen rigging, and with folded arms seemed to doze in the shadow ; a ' young gentleman,' as they used to call the ' brass-bounders,' loafed sleepily near the main shrouds where the break of the poop came. That youngster watched the stars trembling between the squa... Show more

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The Frozen Pirate Series: Unknown Year: Unknown Raiting: 2.5/5 William Clark Russell was a prolific writer of nautical novels. He got his experience of sea life during eight years' service as a sailor. Then he worked as a journalist on the staff of the Daily Chronicle before he started writing novels. ‘The frozen pirate’ is the weird story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who hardly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan, then faces further peril. Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, the pirate ship, filled with what seems to be frozen corpses’. But they are not dead. When one of them revives, Rodney must fend off (and cooperate with, if he hopes to survive) one of the most bloodthirsty and black-hearted scoundrels ever to sail the seven seas. Show more

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