Great Stories of the Sea and Ships

by N.C. Wyeth

Book Overview

More than 50,000 copies of this exhilarating collection of high-seas adventures are already in print. Not only does it showcase the fiction of such classic writers as Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883657074
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Galahad Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

About half are a joy

Raise the main-mast and ready the mizzen; man the helm and steer'er south-south-west. Strengthen your seaman's vernacular as you make your way through these wonderful thirty four short stories (taken from larger novels) of a time past when the great sailing ships ruled the seas. There are also occasional illustrations by Peter Hurd. The stand-outs are from Hans Christian Anderson, James Boyd, Frank T. Bullen, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Kingsley, Jack London, Pierre Loti, John Masefield, Guy Murchie, Jr., Charles Reade, and Morgan Robertson. Wish you well Scott

Grand Collection of Sea Stories

If you have an affinity for sea stories, this is the book for you! Magnificent in content, broad in its scope and selection of authors, it is also a great introduction to some classic and almost forgotten writers. Where else can you read selections from Homer, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Rudyard Kipling? A book originally published in 1940, this new release is a welcome sight to us sea-lovers.