Sea fever
Subtitle: the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
By: Sam Jefferson
Contributors: Adlard Coles Nautical
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical, Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781472908810
Subjects: Seafaring life in literature; History and criticism; Sea stories; Sea in literature; Fiction
Table of contents: title: Erskine Childers: hidden depths; title: Joseph Conrad: clipper ship captain turned literary titan; title: Jame Fenimore Cooper: the first of the nautical novelists; title: Ernest Hemingway: a strange fish; title: Jack London: the call of the sea; title: Captain Marryat: a forgotten hero of the Royal Navy; title: John Masefield: the seasick sailor; title: Herman Melville: literary leviathan; title: Arthur Ransome: in search of utopia; title: Tobias Smollett: grudging grandfather of the nautical novel; title: Robert Louis Stevenson: home is the sailor; title: the final voyage.