Call number
910.453 AYM
Collection
Publication
Crown (1988), Edition: 1, 640 pages
Description
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, including short novels, excerpts from novels, and historical accounts.
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LibraryThing member jwhenderson
As a reader who from an early age read Robinson Crusoe and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I learned to enjoy sea stories. This collection draws sea stories from the finest authors over the ages including selections from authors I have read and enjoyed, including Homer, Richard Henry Dana,
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Jr., Joshua Slocum, Jack London, Joseph Conrad,Thor Heyerdahl, Melville, Poe, Hugo, and more. The breadth of the collection cannot be denied but I was most impressed by the quality of the selections. This is a compilation that I would recommend to all who love sea stories. Show Less
Pages
640
ISBN
0517569183 / 9780517569184