Great stories of the sea & ships
By: edited and with an introduction by N.C. Wyeth ; illustrated in colour and in black & white by Peter Hurd.
Contributors: Wyeth, N. C. 1882-1945.; Hurd, Peter, 1904- ill.
Publisher: D. McKay Co.
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Ocean -- Literary collections.; Ocean -- Literary collections.; Sea stories.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: A selection  of thirty-four works about the sea by such authors as Homer, Hans Christian Andersen, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Christopher Columbus, Daniel Defoe, and others.
Notes: Does not contain colored illustrations.
Table of contents: value: The mermaid / Hans Christian Anderson; value: The fight iun the foretop / James Boyd; value: Collison at sea / Frank T. Bullen; value: The voyage of 1492 / Christopher Columbus; value: The wreck of the Royal Caroline / James Fenimore Cooper; value: Death at sea ; North-wester / Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; value: Three adventures of Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defore; value: Danté's escape from the Château d'If / ALexander Dumas; value: The speksioneer / Elizabeth Gaskell; value: How Captain John Riabult planted a colony in Florida / Richard Hakluyt; value: The raft of Odysseus / Homer; value: The devil-fish ;  An imprisoned thunderstorm / Victor Hugo; value: The phantom island / Washington Irving; value: The iron-clads / Mary Johnson; value: How Amyas threw his sword into the sea / Charles Kingsley; value: Fog / Jack London; value: Iceland fisherman / Pierre Loti; value: Mr. Midshipman Easy makes a bet / The flight of the smugglers / John Masefield; value: The great white whale ;  Rounding Cape Horn / Herman Melville; value: The mutiny on the bounty / Guy Murchie, Jr.; value: A descent into the maelstom / Edgar Allan Poe; value: Sir Richard Grenville and the Spanish armada / Sir Walter Raleigh; value: Attacked by pirates / Charles Reade; value: The derelict Neptune / Morgan Robertson; value: The cruise of the torch / Michael Scott; value: Trafalgar / Robert Southey; value: The man with the belt of gold / Robert Louis Stevenson; value: The rescue of the castaway ; An unknown species of whale / Jules Verne; value: The ballad of the Clampherdown / Rudyard Kipling.