To the sea again : classic sailing stories /
"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 r...
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Lyons Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The Sea, with a Ship :Afterwards an Island / by William Shakespeare
- The Capture : A True Account / by Aaron Smith
- Dirty Weather / by Joseph Conrad
- An Introduction to Informality / by Erskine Childers
- Yammerschooner / by Joshua Slocum
- Young Ironsides / by James Fenimore Cooper
- Rounding Cape Horn / by Herman Melville
- Loss of a Man-Superstition / by Richard Henry Dana
- Mal de Mer / by Jerome K. Jerome
- MS. Found in a Bottle / by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Unfortunate Voyage / by Master John Hawkins
- The Siege of the Round-House / by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Owen Chase's Narrative / by Owen Chase
- The White Whale / by Herman Melville
- Escape from the Ice / by Ernest Shackleton.