American sea writing
Subtitle: a literary anthology
By: Peter Neill, editor ; foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Contributors: Neill, Peter, 1941-
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 671
Subjects: Ocean -- Literary collections.; Ocean travel -- Literary collections.; Seafaring life -- Literary collections.; American literature.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: "Drawing on literary masterworks and riveting firsthand narratives, travel writing and natural science, memoir and journalism, American Sea Writing captures the full sweep of America's maritime experience. From voyagers of the 17th century to ecological dilemmas of the 20th, from Cotton Mather and Washington Irving to Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez, this collection casts our national story in a new and revealing light."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-671).