The book of the sea
Subtitle: being a collection of writings about the sea in all its aspects; with 64 pages of illus. in halftone and gravure, and many line drawings
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Seafaring life; Naval history; Ocean
Table of contents: title: Global sailing conditions / Alan John Villiers.; title: From Tahiti to New Zealand / Captain James Cook.; title: A most dreadful storm / John Masefield.; title: The voyage of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians / Hanno.; title: New Guinea, and the Spice Islands / Amasa Delano.; title: Journal of the first voyage of Columbus.; title: translated by Clements R. Markham.; title: Driven by a tempest / Captain Joshua Slocum.; title: The saga of Erik the Red / translated by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.; title: Halfway / Thor Heyerdahl.; title: Circe / translated by Samuel Butler.; title: Some strange peoples of the Pacific / Antonio Pigafetta.; title: The pearl divers of Mangareva / Alain Gerbault.; title: On the drowning of Sir Humphrey Gilbert / Richard Hakluyt.; title: The renowned voyage of Sir Francis Drake, the first generall which ever sayled about the whole globe / Samuel Purchas.; title: The stokehold / William McFee.; title: Salt horse and discipline / Frederick Pease Harlow.; title: The day of a man-of-war's man / John Masefield.; title: Doubling the cape / Richard Henry Dana.; title: The language of the navy / Henry Taprell Dorling.; title: A narrative of events in the life of John Bartlett of Boston, Mass., in the years 1790-1793, during voyages to Canton and the northwest coast of North America / John Bartlett.; title: Four chanties, The dead horse, Captain Bover, Come roll him over, Jack the guinea pig / edited by Frank Shay.; title: Upon the wretchedness of sea life / James Boswell.; title: Codfishing / Rudyard Kipling.; title: An account of marlin fishing / Philip Wylie.; title: Idle remarks on fishing / Kenneth Roberts.; title: Something formidable and swift / Joseph Conrad.; title: The "San Pedro" goes down / James Gould Cozzens.; title: "My God, where is the ship?" / Owen Chase.; title: The best part of a life / George Millar.; title: The drowning / Henry de Monfreid.; title: Narrative of the loss of the Apollo frigate / edited by Archibald Duncan.; title: The moment of balance / Nicholas Monsarrat.; title: The chase of the smuggler / Michael Scott.; title: Cave diving / Captain J. Y. Cousteau and Frederic Dumas.; title: The tireless enemies / Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton.; title: Sandstorm on the Red Sea / William Albert Robinson.; title: Racing against time and the sea / Carleton Mitchell.; title: Sea meetings / Philippe Diole.; title: The noise of cyclones / Henry Piddington.; title: A descent into perpetual night / William Beebe.; title: Keeling Island / Charles Darwin.; title: Flying fish / Baron Alexander Von Humboldt.; title: On coral reefs / F. D. Ommanney.; title: The marvel of a tide / Gilbert C. Klingel.; title: Zoology and botany of the ship / Henry N. Moseley.; title: Damage by storm waves / D. W. Johnson.; title: Luminosity of the sea / John Purdy.; title: The Dolphin / Frank T. Bullen.; title: Winds blowing seaward / Rachel Carson.; title: The basin of the Atlantic / Matthew Fontaine Maury.; title: In the shoal of the monsters / Hans Hass.; title: The Palaus and the best spearfisherman / Eugenie Clark.; title: On the Gulf Stream / Benjamin Franklin.; title: The sinking of the "York" / I. Valerio Borchese.; title: King Olaf Trygvason's saga / Snorri Sturleson.; title: Adventures of the "Jarak" /Henry Major Tomlinson.; title: The chase of a prize / Frederick Marryat.; title: The battle that crushed Athens / Thucydides.; title: A sailor's view / edited by C. S. Forester.; title: The attack of the Spanish Armada as it might have been reported by an eyewitness on the British Flagship / Hilaire Belloc.; title: Nelson's Triumph / Alfred Thayer Mahan.; title: Harder / Commander Edward L. Beach, USN.; title: Salamis / translated by J. Enoch Powell.; title: The battle between "The Bon Homme Richard" and "The Serapis" / John Paul Jones.; title: The valiant fight performed by 10 merchant ships of London, against 12 Spanish gallies in the Straights of Gibraltar, the 24 of April 1590 / Richard Hakluyt.; title: A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores, the last of August 1591, betwixt the revenge one of Her Majesty's ships, and an armada of the King of Spain / Sir Walter Raleigh.; title: The sound of the sea / Henry Beston.; title: The vastness of the sea / John Harris.; title: The glory and power of the waves / John M. Synge.; title: The endless change of the sea / John M.Synge.; title: Xerxes beats and brands the sea / translated by J. Enoch Powell.; title: On the conduct of Mrs. Partington during the great storm at Sidmouth, in the course of ridiculing the notion that the House of Lords could kill the reform bill / Sydney Smith.; title: The fog / Pierre Loti.; title: The equatorial sea / translated by Lafcadio Hearn.; title: Seascape, with frieze of girls / Marcel Proust.; title: A royal sport / Jack London.; title: The seashore / Henry David Thoreau.; title: Life in the great tide pool / John Steinbeck.; title: His first voyage / Herman Melville.; title: Atolls at a distance / Robert Louis Stevenson.; title: What is the sea? / Robert Louis Stevenson.; title: The character of gales and winds / Joseph Conrad.; title: The dry salvages / T.S. Eliot.