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Ship fire
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Sailors, Sweden.
Reblogged dirtyriver
January 25th, 1931 issue
cover art by Gerard C. Delano
stories included:
Karl William Detzer, “ Arson Squad"
Hugh B. Cave, “Six-Leg Nerves" Alfred Hall Stark, “Red Jade” Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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Adolf Reinheimer (1843-1910), ‘Der Taucher’ (The Diver), “Fliegende Blätter”, #2904, 1901 Source
NYPL - (poster advertising release of book) Robert Louis Stevenson's New Story The Ebb-Tide
(released 1894) Short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
Three beggars operate in the port of Papeete on Tahiti. They are Herrick, a failed English businessman; Davis, an American sea captain disgraced by the loss of his last ship; and Huish, a dishonest Cockney of various employments.
One day an off-course schooner carrying a cargo of champagne from San Francisco to Sydney arrives in port, its officers having been killed by smallpox. With no-one else willing to risk infection, the U.S. consul employs Davis to take over the ship for the remainder of its voyage.
Davis brings the other two men, along with a plan to steal the ship and navigate it to Peru, where they will sell the cargo and vessel and disappear with the money.
click that link if you want to read a bunch of artsy-fartsy talk about persistence of vision and blablahblah so gloopy and dismal that it even makes Miss Monkey’s eyes roll with its sheer nebulous pretension. I included it here because well, if anybody knows anything about horizons that get all blurry and seem to just go on for ever and ever, it’s sailors.
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Soviet model in 1970s Leningrad.