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American sea writing: a literary anthology
Publisher
Library of America
Publication Date
2000
Language
English
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From the Book
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.
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