The first story recalls a nurse met only once on a battlefield, whose name stands beside the narrator’s on a forgotten return of deaths. Others take the reader to a Majorcan waterfront where Tomaso shares wine with the grand Felipe, to a scorpion’s tale, a stubborn mule, love in wartime, a frontline post and the end of the ship Mooroo.
Compact, well-turned stories from a late-Victorian master of the adventure novel. Download the free EPUB.