A strange light was around us, as though the tempest itself made a
light. By it I marked the Admiral, upright where he could best
command the whole. He had lashed himself there, for the ship tossed
excessively. His great figure stood; his white, blowing hair, in that
strange light, made for him a nimbus. It was strange, how the light
seemed to seize that and his brow and his gray-blue eyes.... He
looked what he was, something more than a bold man and a brave sea
captain, and there streamed from him comfort. It touched his
mariners; it came among them like tongues of flame. -from Chapter
XXXI This 1922 book, published in England under the title Admiral of
the Ocean-Sea, is a fictionalized account of Christopher Columbus's
famous 1492 voyage, told from the point of view of one of his
sailors, Jayme de Marchena, a Spanish Jew whose kabbalistic
perspective lends the tale an air of mystery and mysticism. A classic
of historical fiction, it is a stirring adventure of exploration of
the wide world and the inner soul. MARY JOHNSTON (1870-1936) also
wrote Lewis Rand, Pioneers of the Old South, and To Have and to Hold.
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