Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Awfully Big Adventure
The aptness of this title will be apparent when it is explained that odds and ends of personal possessions left lying about the mess decks of a man-of - war are impounded by the Ship's Police and kept for safe custody in a sack. This receptacle of random glean ings is called the Scran Bag.
My publishers agreed that the title was admirable - t_o the initiated. They opined, however, that the bulk of the public would be left, so to speak, cold. They reminded me that it was no use explaining it in a Preface, since no one reads Prefaces. They inti mated that life was a sordid business, and we all have to make our livings-ln short, no book with such a title would sell.
I therefore turned to the classics, and in Peter Pan found a title which, I think, is comprehensive of any record, however fragmentary and incomplete, whether bald fact or fact sugared with fiction, of the Navy's share in this War.
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