Project Gutenberg 2006-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 74 Corbière, Edouard 1793 1875 Corbière, Édouard Corbiere, Edouard Scènes de mer, Tome II Reading ease score: 71.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Carlo Traverso, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Scènes de mer, Tome II" by Edouard Corbière is a dramatic narrative likely written in the early 19th century. This work seems to delve into the harsh realities of maritime life, focusing on the ordeal of the crew and passengers of a ship called the "Mascarenhas", who face dire circumstances at sea, including disease and despair. The book features the characters of the captain and the afflicted crew, highlighting the themes of hope, suffering, and human endurance in a forgotten corner of the ocean. At the start of the story, the "Mascarenhas" is stuck in a devastating calm in the equatorial sea, with its crew suffering from a debilitating epidemic exacerbated by the lack of fresh water. As the days stretch into a nightmarish saga marked by hopelessness, the captain desperately attempts to keep morale up, promising that help may come with approaching clouds. The moment that hope glimmers with the sight of another ship, the situation spirals into chaos as a small contingent sent to seek help encounters tragedy. The scene is one of psychological tension, as madness takes hold among the passengers, culminating in a dark revelation about despair and the unknown as they encounter the enigmatic "Fantôme" and its chilling captain, the infamous Capitaine-Noir. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Sea stories French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text Pirates, Buccaneers, Corsairs, etc. FR Nouvelles Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 327782 327783 2024-10-08T07:12:31.235543 2023-09-08T08:59:02.184515 text/html text/html 369387 2006-05-01T15:17:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 121670 2006-05-01T15:17:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 192378 2024-10-08T07:12:39.108467 application/epub+zip 194855 2024-10-08T07:12:34.392480 application/epub+zip 183177 2024-10-08T07:12:33.130497 application/epub+zip 373325 2024-10-08T07:12:42.583471 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356669 2024-10-08T07:12:38.317457 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 314221 2022-09-08T15:44:39.814822 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 308257 307988 2024-10-08T07:12:30.479505 2023-09-08T08:59:01.452528 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 300874 2006-05-01T15:17:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 113379 2006-05-01T15:17:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20921 2024-10-08T07:12:42.710432 application/rdf+xml 12872 2024-10-08T07:12:33.659483 image/jpeg 3652 2024-10-08T07:12:33.392481 image/jpeg 186934 2024-10-08T07:12:31.266514 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia