"e;The theme of the sea is heroic--epic. Since the first stirrings of the imagination of man the sea has enthralled him; and since the dawn of literature he has chronicled his wanderings upon its vast bosom."e; Joseph Lewis French collected what he considered the best sea stories of literature into this volume.
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- GREAT SEA STORIES
- Contents
- Foreword
- Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs
- The Club-Hauling of the Diomede
- The Cruise of the Torch
- The Merchantman and the Pirate
- Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty
- The Wreck of the Royal Caroline
- The Capture of the Great White Whale
- The Corvette Claymore
- The Merchants' Cup
- A Storm and a Rescue
- The Sailor's Wife
- The Salving of the Yan-Shan
- The Derelict Neptune
- The Terrible Solomons
- El Dorado
- Endnotes