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. Joseph Lewis French collected what he...
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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. Joseph Lewis French collected what he considered the best sea stories of literature into this volume
Title; 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;
