Download or read book The Ships of Peace (Classic Reprint) written by Basil Mathews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ships of Peace Before daybreak on Monday morning, July 5, 1742, a boy apprentice rolled quietly out from his cramped bed under the counter in his master's shop. Softly unlatching the door, he stepped out into the road by the tiny harbour. The soft hush-hush' of the incoming tide, which would be full that morning at 6 o'clock, spoke to him as he strode quickly away from Staithes, climb ing the hill to the cliff, and walked away southward for nine miles till the grey walls of Whitby Abbey loomed ahead of him across the harbour. He dropped down the hill to the town and was soon by the harbour side. As James Cook climbed aboard his chosen ship the outlines of the grey abbey stood up above the cliffs, catching the light of the morning sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.