Great Stories of the Sea & Ships [Hardcover]

N.C. Wyeth (Editor), Peter Hurd (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2004

More than 50,000 copies of this exhilarating collection of high-seas adventures are already in print. Not only does it showcase the fiction of such classic writers as Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, and Jack London, but the entries also feature historic first-person narratives, including Christopher Columbus’s own account of his famous voyage in 1492. Every page offers excitement, from vivid tales of heroic naval battles and dangerous journeys of exploration to the thrilling stories of castaways and smugglers. The astonishing variety of works includes “The Raft of Odysseus,” by Homer; Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Mermaid”; “The Specksioneer,” by Elizabeth Gaskell; Washington Irving’s “The Phantom Island”; and “Rounding Cape Horn,” by Herman Melville. Eighteen extraordinary black and white illustrations by Peter Hurd add to the volume's beauty.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Galahad (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883657074
• ISBN-13: 978-0883657072
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,312,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grand Collection of Sea Stories, January 10, 1998

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This review is from: Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (Hardcover)

If you have an affinity for sea stories, this is the book for you! Magnificent in content, broad in its scope and selection of authors, it is also a great introduction to some classic and almost forgotten writers. Where else can you read selections from Homer, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Rudyard Kipling? A book originally published in 1940, this new release is a welcome sight to us sea-lovers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars About half are a joy, March 2, 2009

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Scott Walker (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (Hardcover)

Raise the main-mast and ready the mizzen; man the helm and steer'er south-south-west. Strengthen your seaman's vernacular as you make your way through these wonderful thirty four short stories (taken from larger novels) of a time past when the great sailing ships ruled the seas. There are also occasional illustrations by Peter Hurd.

The stand-outs are from Hans Christian Anderson, James Boyd, Frank T. Bullen, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Kingsley, Jack London, Pierre Loti, John Masefield, Guy Murchie, Jr., Charles Reade, and Morgan Robertson.

Wish you well

Scott

5.0 out of 5 stars great stories, November 2, 2011

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This review is from: Great Stories of the Sea and Ships (Hardcover)

I have been looking for a book I owned 20 years ago and thought this might be it. It wasn't but this book is in excellant shape and good stories none the less.