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Good reading. Contributors include Shakespeare, Melville, Poe, Joshua Slocum, James Fenimore Cooper, Ernest Shackleton, and more for a total of 15 stories that will entertain, inform, and even inspire.
Contents
The Sea with a Ship-Afterwards an island
The Capture: A True Account
Dirty Weather
An Introduction to Informality
Yammerschooner
Young Ironsides
Rounding Cape Horn
Loss of a Man
Mal de Mer
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Unfortunate Voyage
The Siege of the Round House
Owen Chase's Narrative
The White Whale
Escape from the Ice.
320 pp., softcover
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