Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson · Running time 4:46:08 · Action & Adventure Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Historical Fiction
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The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has always been something especially fascinating about an island amid the ocean. It's very existence has for all explorers an air of magic. The order of the tales in the present work follows roughly the order of development, giving first the legends which kept near the European shore, and then those which, like St. Brandan's or Antillia, were assigned to the open sea or, like Norumbega o
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