Island In The Sea Of Time (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
The coast of England was green and silent, save for birds in numbers that made the sky restless. It might have been a morning before man, except that—she focused the binoculars—there was a haze of smoke a little farther to the northeast. Well, well, Marian Alston said to herself. Then, aloud: “Soundings.” “Forty feet and shoaling, ma’am. Twenty-three feet under the keel.” “Twenty-three feet, aye,” Captain Alston replied. “Keep it comin’.” At least they had the depthfinder; she’d have to remember to have someone trained in throwing the lead line from the bowsprit nets against the day that it unrecoverably wore out. It made her teeth stand on edge to come this close to shore when her shoal charts were useless and the only repair facilities for a steel-hulled ship were a long, long couple of thousand years away. At least the weather looked fair and the glass was steady, just enough wind to scatter whitecaps across blue ocean. Water was lighter over shoals and mudbanks, of which the area looked to have more than its share.
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