Men at Sea: The Best Sea Stories of All Time

by Brandt Aymar, Thor Heyerdahl, Francis Chichester, et al.

Book Overview

This huge companion volume to the popular anthologyMen at Warcontains 60 selections about men who have challenged the sea, from such writers as Melville, Poe, Conrad, London, Hugo, and Hemingway,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088029907X
• ISBN13: 9780880299077
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Barnes and Noble
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

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Table of Contents for Men At Sea

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Brandt Aymar Sea Adventurers ESCAPE FROM SCYLLA-CHARYBDIS, THEN SHIPWRECK Homer, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley / The Odyssey THE FLOGGING AND ARRIVAL IN SAN DIEGO Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Two Years Before The Mast THE VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE Joshua Slocum / The Voyages of Joshua Slocum HALFWAY Thor Heyerdahl / Kon-Tiki GIPSY MOTH CAPSIZES IN THE TASMAN SEA Sir Francis Chichester / Gipsy Moth Circles the World Sea Battles THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS Herodotus, translated by Isaac Littlebury / The History of Herodotus BEN-HUR ESCAPES FROM THE ASTROEA Lewis Wallace / Ben-Hur THE ESCAPE OF THE PRIMROSE Richard Hakluyt / The Principal Navigators of the English Nation THE GREAT ARMADA Charles Kingsley / Westward Ho! THE ARIEL DEFEATS THE ALACRITY James Fenimore Cooper / The Pilot THE BATTLE OF BONHOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS Valentine Thomson / Knight of the Seas TRAFALGAR Robert Southey / The Life of Nelson THE CONSTITUTION CAPTURES THE GUERRIERE Theodore Roosevelt / The Naval War of 1812 THE BLOW-UP OF THE MOHAWK William Robinson / Yankee Middy THE SINKING OF THE CONFEDERATE STEAMER ALABAMA John McIntosh Kell / Recollections of Naval Life THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY George Dewey / The Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND Jacques Mordal, translated by Len Ortzen /25 Centuries of Sea Warfare THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK C. S. Forester / The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck HOSPITAL SHIP RAMS U-BOAT Alistair MacLean / San Andreas THE DEFEAT OF THE YORKTOWN Walter Lord / Incredible Victory Sea Disasters A WILD CANNON DOOMS THE CLAYMORE Victor Hugo / Ninety-Three THE LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE Sir Ernest Shackleton / South THE TORPEDOING OF THE LUSITANIA David Butler / Lusitania THE BURNING OF THE MORRO CASTLE Thomas Gallagher / Fire at Sea THE SINKING OF THE SQUALUS Nat A. Barrows / Blow All Ballast! THE FOG William Hoffer / Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria Sea Divers CAPTAIN NEMO'S REVENGE Jules Verne / Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea TEDDY TUCKER, BERMUDA DIVER Robert F. Marx / Sea Fever THE CANNONS OF THE A TOCHA Robert Daley / Treasure Sea Explorers FIRST CROSSING OF THE ATLANTIC Samuel Eliot Morison / Christopher Columbus, Mariner THE AMBUSH AND DEATH OF MAGELLAN Charles McKew Parr / Ferdinand Magellan, Circumnavigator THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER William Bradford / The History of Plymouth Settlement THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK Andrew Kippis / The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook SOUTHWARD HO TO THE POLE Richard Evelyn Byrd / Discovery U.S.S. SKATE SURFACES AT NORTH POLE James Calvert / Surface at the Pole Sea Life THE MIDSHIPMAN Frederick Marryat / Stories of the Sea LIFE IN THE FORECASTLE William McFee / Casuals of the Sea ALOFT ON THE FLYING CLOUD Morley Roberts / The Flying Cloud THE FIGHT WITH THE SHARKS Ernest Hemingway / The Old Man and the Sea REACHING MARBELLA William F. Buckley, Jr. / Atlantic High Sea Mutinies SLAVER: THE AMISTAD A.B.C. Whipple / Tall Ships and G