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The Grain Ship (Paperback)
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The Grain Ship (Paperback)
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Loot Price R180
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The Grain Ship (1914) is a collection of short stories by Morgan
Roberston. Published a year before the author's death, The Grain
Ship compiles works of short fiction originally published in
Harper's Monthly, New Story Magazine, and The Sunday Magazine. The
ten stories of The Grain Ship showcase Robertson's skill for
yarn-spinning while benefitting from his experience as a merchant
sailor. Dining alone at an upscale restaurant, an old sailor
overhears an intriguing conversation at the next table over. He
listens as a retired sea captain discusses the discovery off the
coast of Spain of a merchant ship abandoned and overrun with rats.
Intrigued at first, the sailor soon remembers an encounter nearly
three decades old. While making his way across Arizona as a cattle
driver, thinking of nothing more than returning to sea, he meets a
stranger in distress with a faded anchor tattooed on his arm.
Taking him to his shelter, he realizes the stranger has lost his
memory, that he has no idea of who or where he is. When a rat runs
across the floor of the shelter, he suddenly remembers his
experience on a grain ship bound from San Francisco, a disastrous
voyage on which the whole crew-save for himself-disappeared. "The
Grain Ship" is a tale of terror, illness, and doom on the high seas
by an author whose experience as a sailor serves him well.
Collected in this volume are nine more stories published during
Morgan Robertson's brief yet productive career as a professional
writer, including "From the Darkness and the Depths," "Noah's Ark,"
and "The Argonauts." With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Morgan
Robertson's The Grain Ship is a classic work of American fiction
reimagined for modern readers.
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