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Men at sea : the best sea stories of all time from Homer to William F. Buckley, Jr. /

"This huge companion volume to the popular anthology Men at War contains 60 selections about men who have challenged the sea, from such writers as Melville, Poe, Conrad, London, Hugo, and Hemingway, including short novels, excerpts from novels, and historical accounts."--Publisher's d...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aymar, Bryant
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [1988]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Sea stories.
Récits de mer.
Sea fiction.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • SEA ADVENTURES: Escape from Scylla-Charybdis, then shipwreck ; The Odyssey / Homer, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley
  • The flogging and arrival in San Diego ; Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
  • The voyage of the Liberdade ; The voyages of Joshua Slocum / Joshua Slocum
  • Halfway ; Kon-Tiki / Thor Heyerdahl
  • Gipsy Moth capsizes in the Tasman Sea ; Gipsy Moth circles the world / Sir Francis Chichester
  • SEA BATTLES : The battle of Salamis ; The history of Herodotus / Herodotus, translated by Isaac Littlebury
  • Ben-Hur excapes from the Astroea ; Ben-Hur / Lewis Wallace
  • The escape of the Primrose ; The principle navigators of the English Nation / Richard Hakluyt
  • The great armada ; Westward Ho! / Charles Kingsley
  • The Ariel defeats the Alacrity ; The pilot / James Fenimore Cooper
  • The battle of Bonhomme Richard and Serapis ; Knight of the seas / Valentine Thomson
  • Trafalgar ; The life of Nelson / Robert Southey
  • The Constitution captures the Guerriere ; The Naval War of 1812 / Theodore Roosevelt
  • The bolw-up of the Mohawk ; Yankee Middy / William Robinson
  • The sinking of the Confederate steamer Alabama ; Recollections of Naval life / John McIntosh Kell
  • The Battle of Manila Bay; The Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the navy / George Dewey
  • The battle of Jutland ; 25 centuries of sea warfare / Jaques Mordal, translated by Len Ortzen
  • The sinking of the Bismarck ; The last nine days of the Bismarck / C.S. Forester
  • Hospital ship rams u-boat ; San Andreas / Alistair MacLean
  • The defeat of the Yorktown ; Incredible Victory / Walter Lord
  • Sea Disasters: A wild cannon dooms the Claymore ; Ninty
  • Three / Victor Hugo
  • The loss of the Endurance ; South / Sir Ernest Shackleton
  • The torpedoing of the Lusitania ; Lusitania / David Butler
  • The burning of the Morro castle ; Fire at sea / Thomas Gallagher
  • The sinking of the Squalus ; Blow all ballast / Nat A. Barrows
  • The Fog ; Saved: the story of the Andrea Doria / William Hoffer
  • Sea Divers: Captain Nemo's revenge ; Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne
  • Teddy Tucker, Bermuda diver ; Sea Fever / Robert F. Marx
  • The cannons of the Atocha ; Treasure / Robert Daley
  • Sea Explorers: First crossing of the Atlantic ; Christopher Columbus, Mariner / Samuel Eliot Morison
  • The ambush and death of Magellan ; Ferdinand Magellan, Circumnavigator / Charles McKew Parr
  • The voyage of the Mayflower ; The history of Plymouth Settlement / William Bradford
  • The death of Captain Cook ; The life and voyages of Captain James Cook / Andrew Kippis
  • Southward ho to the Pole ; Discovery / Richard Evelyn Byrd
  • U.S.S. Skate surfaces at North Pole ; Surface at the Pole / James Calvert
  • Sea Life: The midshipman ; Stories of the sea / Frederick Marryat
  • Life in the forecastle ; Casuals of the sea / William McFee
  • Aloft on the Flying Cloud ; The Flying Cloud / Morley Roberts
  • The fight with the sharks ; The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway
  • Reaching Marbella ; Atlantic High / William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Sea Mutinies: Slaver: the Amistad ; Tall ships and great captains / A.B.C. Whipple
  • The mutiny ; The Caine muntiny / Herman Wouk
  • Sea Phantoms: The giant ship ; Wander-ships / William Basset
  • The craft of death ; Master sea stories / R. T. Ross
  • The phantom death ; The phantom death and other stories / W. Clark Russell
  • Sea Pirates and Privateers: Agra outwits two pirate ships ; Hard cash / Charles Reade
  • The end of Black-Beard, the pirate ; Buccaneers and marooners of America / Howard Pyle
  • Pirate Captain Wiliam Fly ; The lives and bloody exploits of the most noted pirates / Charles Johnson
  • The capture of the Manila galleon ; The Privateers / Fleming MacLiesh and Martin L. Krieger
  • Sea Storms: The gale ; The nigger of the Narcissus / Joseph Conrad
  • Sea Survivors: Loss of the Centaur Man-o-war ; Shipwrecks and disaster at sea / compiled by Charles Ellms
  • The incredible survival ; The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The open boat ; The open boat / Stephen Crane
  • The landsman's tale ; Afeild and afloat / Frank Stockton
  • My rescue from the Titanic ; Harper's Weekly (April 27, 1912)
  • Sea Whalers and Sealers: The chase ; Moby Dick / Herman Melville
  • Whaling near the Falklands ; There she blows! / Captain W. H. Macy
  • Christmas dinner aboard a whale ; The cruise of the Cashlelot / Frank Bullen
  • The ghost loses her seal-hunting boats ; The sea wolf / Jack London
  • Sea Wrecks: St. Paul averts a shipwreck ; the Bible / "Acts of the Apostles," XXVII
  • The loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman ; A narrative of the loss of Kent, East Indiaman / Sir Duncan MacGregor
  • Crusoe Visits the wreck ; Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe.