Great Stories of the Sea includes stories of past centuries, as well as contemporary tales. It offers portraits of fishermen and their families' harbor lives, of working people and city life. The lifeline for all the writers collected here is the ocean's edge. There's Stephen Crane, Frank Stockton, Norman Duncan, Thomas Randall, Alistair Macleod, Silver Donald Cameron and many more with blustery tales about ready ships and sailors longing to put to sea. He lives and teaches in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
People quit their jobs.
Men left their wives. Women ran away from their husbands. All set off on the great stampede. Writers, too, joined the rush for gold. Tapan Adney, Jack London, Rex Beach, Jacquin Miller, and scores of others found their way north.