American sea writing: a literary anthology

Foreword / Nathaniel Philbrick, Introduction and 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

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 The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition / William Clark

from Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean / David Porter

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

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" / Herman Melville

from White-Jacket: "The last of the Jacket" / Herman Melville

from Moby-Dick: "Midnight, Forecastle" / Herman Melville

from Moby-Dick: "Brit" / Herman Milville

from Moby-Dick: "The Grand Armada" / Herman Melville

from Israel Potter: "They Fight the Serapis" / Herman Melville

Tuft of Kelp / Herman Melville

from The Opening of Japan / George Henry Preble

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life / Walt Whitman

World below the Brine / Walt Whitman

Paumanok Picture / Walt Whitman

Winter Day on the Sea-Beach / Walt Whitman

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 / Raphel 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

Open Boat / Stephen Crane

from The Voyage of the Transports / Richard Harding Davis

from Sailing Alone Around the World / Joshua Slocum

Royal Sport / Jack London

from From Sail to Steam / Alfred Thayer Mahan

Ile / Eugene O'Neill

from The Big Sea / Langston Hughes

Fish / Marianne Moore

Headlong Wave / Henry Beston

Cutty Sark / Hart Crane

After the Storm / Ernest Hemingway

from A Descent Into Perpetual Night / William Beebe

Captain's Table / Cornelia Otis Skinner

Story of Sailing / James Thurber

Havana Cruise / James Agee

from Sea of Cortez / John Steinbeck

Cruising / Alvin Kernan

Death of Sergeant Alex / Edward V. Rickenbacker

Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell

At the Fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop

Marginal World / Rachel Carson

Under Montauk Light / Peter Matthiessen

Oil / Gary Snyder

Bottom of the Harbor / Joseph Mitchell

Product / George Oppen

Sea and the Wind That Blows / E. B. White

August Day's Sail / Samuel Eliot Morison

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.