Download or read book The Ship and the Island (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ship and the Island 'Grandfather! I want to speak to you.' 'Well, my little boy; what have you to say?' 'Can't you guess, grandfather? I want you to tell us another story.' 'Oh, that's it, is it? Well, go and call your brothers and sisters; and then we will settle what it shall be about.' 'Now, grandfather, we are all ready. You once said that some extraordinary events had taken place in the last century; can you not tell us something about them?' 'Quite right; many events took place in the last century, some of them the most interesting and extraordinary the world has ever seen. There were the great American War of Independence, the voyages of Captain Cook round the world, and the memorable French Revolution, besides so many wonderful inventions and discoveries, that you would grow tired of listening to all the stories that could be told about them.' 'Oh, grandfather! we can never grow tired of your stories; we have been thinking we should like one about adventures on the sea.' 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.