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Men at Sea: The Best Sea Stories of All Time

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Brandt Aymar

Sea Adventurers

ESCAPE FROM SCYLLA-CHARYBDIS, THEN SHIPWRECK

Homer, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley / The Odyssey

THE FLOGGING AND ARRIVAL IN SAN DIEGO

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Two Years Before The Mast

THE VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE

Joshua Slocum / The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

HALFWAY

Thor Heyerdahl / Kon-Tiki

GIPSY MOTH CAPSIZES IN THE TASMAN SEA

Sir Francis Chichester / Gipsy Moth Circles the World

Sea Battles

THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS

Herodotus, translated by Isaac Littlebury / The History of Herodotus

BEN-HUR ESCAPES FROM THE ASTROEA

Lewis Wallace / Ben-Hur

THE ESCAPE OF THE PRIMROSE

Richard Hakluyt / The Principal Navigators of the English Nation

THE GREAT ARMADA

Charles Kingsley / Westward Ho!

THE ARIEL DEFEATS THE ALACRITY

James Fenimore Cooper / The Pilot

THE BATTLE OF BONHOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS

Valentine Thomson / Knight of the Seas

TRAFALGAR

Robert Southey / The Life of Nelson

THE CONSTITUTION CAPTURES THE GUERRIERE

Theodore Roosevelt / The Naval War of 1812

THE BLOW-UP OF THE MOHAWK

William Robinson / Yankee Middy

THE SINKING OF THE CONFEDERATE STEAMER ALABAMA

John McIntosh Kell / Recollections of Naval Life

THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY

George Dewey / The Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy

THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND

Jacques Mordal, translated by Len Ortzen /25 Centuries of Sea Warfare

THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK

C. S. Forester / The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck

HOSPITAL SHIP RAMS U-BOAT

Alistair MacLean / San Andreas

THE DEFEAT OF THE YORKTOWN

Walter Lord / Incredible Victory

Sea Disasters

A WILD CANNON DOOMS THE CLAYMORE

Victor Hugo / Ninety-Three

THE LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE

Sir Ernest Shackleton / South

THE TORPEDOING OF THE LUSITANIA

David Butler / Lusitania

THE BURNING OF THE MORRO CASTLE

Thomas Gallagher / Fire at Sea

THE SINKING OF THE SQUALUS

Nat A. Barrows / Blow All Ballast!

THE FOG

William Hoffer / Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria

Sea Divers

CAPTAIN NEMO'S REVENGE

Jules Verne / Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

TEDDY TUCKER, BERMUDA DIVER

Robert F. Marx / Sea Fever

THE CANNONS OF THE A TOCHA

Robert Daley / Treasure

Sea Explorers

FIRST CROSSING OF THE ATLANTIC

Samuel Eliot Morison / Christopher Columbus, Mariner

THE AMBUSH AND DEATH OF MAGELLAN

Charles McKew Parr / Ferdinand Magellan, Circumnavigator

THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER

William Bradford / The History of Plymouth Settlement

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK

Andrew Kippis / The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook

SOUTHWARD HO TO THE POLE

Richard Evelyn Byrd / Discovery

U.S.S. SKATE SURFACES AT NORTH POLE

James Calvert / Surface at the Pole

Sea Life

THE MIDSHIPMAN

Frederick Marryat / Stories of the Sea

LIFE IN THE FORECASTLE

William McFee / Casuals of the Sea

ALOFT ON THE FLYING CLOUD

Morley Roberts / The Flying Cloud

THE FIGHT WITH THE SHARKS

Ernest Hemingway / The Old Man and the Sea

REACHING MARBELLA

William F. Buckley, Jr. / Atlantic High

Sea Mutinies

SLAVER: THE AMISTAD

A.B.C. Whipple / Tall Ships and Great Captains

THE MUTINY

Herman Wouk / The Caine Mutiny

THE GIANT SHIP

William Bassett / Wander-Ships

THE CRAFT OF DEATH

R. T. Ross / Master Sea Stories

THE PHANTOM DEATH

W. Clark Russell / The Phantom Death and Other Stories

Sea Pirates and Privateers

AGRA OUTWITS TWO PIRATE SHIPS

Charles Reade / Hard Cash

THE END OF BLACK-BEARD, THE PIRATE

Howard Pyle / Buccaneers and Marooners of America

PIRATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM FLY

Charles Johnson / The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates

THE CAPTURE OF THE MANILA GALLEON

Fleming MacLiesh and Martin L. Krieger / The Privateers

Sea Storms

THE GALE

Joseph Conrad / The Nigger of the Narcissus

Sea Survivors

LOSS OF THE CENTAUR MAN-OF-WAR

Compiled by Charles Ellms / Shipwrecks and Disaster at Sea

THE INCREDIBLE SURVIVAL

Edgar Allan Poe / The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

THE OPEN BOAT

Stephen Crane / The Open Boat

THE LANDSMAN'S TALE

Frank Stockton / Afield and Afloat

MY RESCUE FROM THE TITANIC

William Inglis / Harper's Weekly (April 27, 1912)

Sea Whalers and Sealers

THE CHASE

Herman Melville / Moby Dick

WHALING NEAR THE FALKLANDS

Captain W. H. Macy / There She Blows!

CHRISTMAS DINNER ABOARD A WHALE

Frank Bullen / The Cruise of the Cashelot

THE GHOST LOSES HER SEAL -HUNTING BOATS

Jack London / The Sea Wolf

Sea Wrecks

ST. PAUL AVERTS A SHIPWRECK

"Acts of the Apostles," XXVII, The Bible

THE LOSS OF THE HALSEWELL EAST INDIAMAN

Archibald Duncan / The Mariner's Chronicle

LOSS OF THE KENT EAST INDIAMAN

Sir Duncan MacGregor / A Narrative of the Loss of Kent, East Indiaman

CRUSOE VISITS THE WRECK

Daniel Defoe / Robinson Crusoe