American Sea Writing
Subtitle: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
Contributors: Peter Neill (Editor); Nathaniel Philbrick (Editor)
Publisher: Library of America
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781883011833
Subjects: Ocean; Literary Collections; American Literature (Specific Aspects); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Seafaring life; Fiction; Ocean travel; American - General; Literary Collections / American / General; American literature
First sentence: FOR four and twenty hours the storm, in a restless tumult, had blown so exceedingly, as we could not apprehend in our imaginations any possibility of greater violence.