To the sea again
Subtitle: classic sailing stories
By: edited by Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780762796489
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: English Sea stories; American Sea stories; Seafaring life; SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Sailing; SPORTS & RECREATION / Boating
Description: "Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic accounts are stronger and more dramatic for their total lack of affection, their frankness, and their lack of ego. Their gripping stories are custom made for the imaginative reader who seeks adventure in a more controlled environment, safe and warm, and well fed. Civilized readers with their armchairs anchored firmly to the living room floor.  Rich in drama and history, here are fifteen stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire--enduring stories that have attracted generations of readers.  With contributions from: William Shakespeare Aaron Smith Joseph Conrad Erskine Childers Joshua Slocum James Fenimore Cooper Herman Melville Richard Henry Dana Jerome K. Jerome Edgar Allan Poe Richard Hakluyt Robert Louis Stevenson Owen Chase Ernest Shackleton  "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280).
Table of contents: title: The Sea, with a Ship :Afterwards an Island / by William Shakespeare; title: The Capture : A True Account / by Aaron Smith; title: Dirty Weather / by Joseph Conrad; title: An Introduction to Informality / by Erskine Childers; title: Yammerschooner / by Joshua Slocum; title: Young Ironsides / by James Fenimore Cooper; title: Rounding Cape Horn / by Herman Melville; title: Loss of a Man-Superstition / by Richard Henry Dana; title: Mal de Mer / by Jerome K. Jerome; title: MS. Found in a Bottle / by Edgar Allan Poe; title: The Unfortunate Voyage / by Master John Hawkins; title: The Siege of the Round-House / by Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Owen Chase's Narrative / by Owen Chase; title: The White Whale / by Herman Melville; title: Escape from the Ice / by Ernest Shackleton.