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American sea writing : a literary anthology
Title
American sea writing : a literary anthology / Peter Neill, editor ; foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.
ISBN
1883011833
9781883011833
Published
New York : Library of America, ©2000.
Physical Description
xxi, 671 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
This anthology of essays captures the full sweep of America's maritime experience, with narratives from voyagers from the 17th century to the 20th century. Included are writings from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, and more.
Other formats
Online version: American sea writing. New York : Library of America, ©2000
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 09, 2023
Series
Library of America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-671).
Contents
Foreword / Nathaniel Philbrick
Introduction / Peter Neill
From 'A true reportory of the wrack'; and, 'Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight' / William Strachey
From 'History of Plymouth Plantation' / William Bradford
Of the sea / Roger Williams
From 'Magnalia Christi Americana' / Cotton Mather
The wonderful providence of God exemplified in the preservation of William Walling / William Walling
From 'The interesting narrative of the life' / Olaudah Equiano
From 'Peculiar customs at Nantucket' / J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur.
From 'A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage' / John Ledyard
From 'Journals of the Lewis & Clark expedition' / William Clark
From 'Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean' / David Porter
The voyage / Washington Irving
From 'A narrative of voyages and travels in the northern and southern hemispheres' / Amasa Delano
From 'Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket' / Owen Chase
From 'A narrative of the mutiny on board the ship Globe' / William Lay and Cyrus M. Hussey.
From 'The pilot' / James Fenimore Cooper
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
From 'Journal of a young actress' / Fanny Kemble
From 'A summer cruise in the Mediterranean' / Nathaniel Parker Willis
From 'Journals' / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe
From 'Two years before the mast' / Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Foot-prints on the sea-shore / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From 'Voyage to the southern ocean' / William Reynolds
From 'Cape Cod' / Henry David Thoreau.
From 'Mardi' : "A calm"; from 'White-jacket' : "The last of the jacket"; from 'Moby-Dick' : "Midnight, forecastle", "Brit" and, "The grand armada"; from 'Israel Potter' : "They fight the serapis"; The tuft of kelp / Herman Melville
From 'The opening of Japan' / George Henry Preble
As I ebb'd with the ocean of life; The world below the brine; A paumanok picture; A winter day on the sea-beach; Sea-shore fancies / Walt Whitman
From 'Remarks on board brig Thomas W. Roland' / Mary Rowland
From 'In the monitor's turret'/ Samuel Dana Greene.
From 'Memoirs of service afloat during the War Between the States' / Raphael Semmes
Pearl-hunting in the Pomotous / Charles Warren Stoddard
From 'Among the Isles of the Shoals' / Celia Thaxter
Betrayed / James H. Williams
From 'Chita : a memory of Last Island' / Lafcadio Hearn
From 'About all kinds of ships / Mark Twain
The open boat / Stephen Crane
From 'The voyage of the transports' / Richard Harding Davis
From 'Sailing alone around the world' / Joshua Slocum
A royal sport / Jack London
From 'From sail to steam' / Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Ile / Eugene O'Neill
From 'The big sea' / Langston Hughes
The fish / Marianne Moore
The headlong wave / Henry Beston
Cutty Sark / Hart Crane
After the storm / Ernest Hemingway
From 'A descent into perpetual night' / William Beebe
The captain's table / Cornelia Otis Skinner
The story of sailing / James Thurber
Havana cruise / James Agee
From 'Sea of Cortez' / John Steinbeck
Cruising / Alvin Kernan
The death of Sergeant Alex / Edward V. Rickenbacker
The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell
At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop
The marginal world / Rachel Carson.
Under Montauk light / Peter Matthiessen
Oil / Gary Snyder
The bottom of the harbor / Joseph Mitchell
Product / George Oppen
The sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White
An August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison
A presentation of whales / Barry Lopez
From 'Sea change : a message of the oceans' / Sylvia A. Earle
From 'The ice : a journey to Antarctica' / Stephen J. Pyne
From 'Looking for a ship' / John McPhee.
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Fiction.
Literary collections.
Literature.
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Sea fiction.
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