Excerpt from Our Heritage the Sea This being so (and I have not the slightest fear of its being questioned), I feel that no apology is needed for my present attempt to present, 'in a series of sketches, the salient points concerning our heritage the sea, while fully conscious Of my many limitations and scanty equipment for so important a task. In this respect I may say that I have endeavoured to summarize in readable fashion the substance of many most important works upon the sea, and set the summary forth in the light of personal acquaintance, in the hope that, without my book being definitely entitled a romance, it will be found genuinely romantic in the highest sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.