The re-release of this long-lost gem from 1897 culminates the ten-year celebration of The Nelson Decade and coincides with the Trafalgar bicentennial events currently underway. The author, William Clark Russell, was one of the nineteenth century's most popular and prolific writers of nautical literature, and his short stories and novels were so widely read that they were mentioned in other novels of the day. Largely forgotten today is the fact that...