American sea writing : a literary anthology /
American sea writing : a literary anthology / [print]
Peter Neill, editor ; foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.
- New York : Library of America, (c)2000.
- xxi, 671 pages ; 24 cm.
Foreword Introduction 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 The wonderful providence of God exemplified in the preservation of William Walling From 'The interesting narrative of the life' / Olaudah Equiano -- From 'Peculiar customs at Nantucket' / J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur Nathaniel Philbrick -- Peter Neill -- Roger Williams From 'Magnalia Christi Americana' / Cotton Mather -- William Walling -- From 'A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage' / John Ledyard -- From 'Journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition' / William Clark -- From 'Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean' / David Porter -- The voyage 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 Washington Irving -- From 'The pilot' / James Fenimore Cooper -- Old Ironsides 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 From 'Two years before the mast' / Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- Foot-prints on the sea-shore The wreck of the Hesperus From 'Voyage to the southern ocean' / William Reynolds -- From 'Cape Cod' / Henry David Thoreau Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- 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 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 From 'Remarks on board brig Thomas W. Roland' / Mary Rowland -- From 'In the monitor's turret'/ Samuel Dana Greene Herman Melville -- Walt Whitman -- From 'Memoirs of service afloat during the War Between the States' / Raphael Semmes -- Pearl-hunting in the Pomotous From 'Among the Isles of the Shoals' / Celia Thaxter -- Betrayed From 'Chita : a memory of Last Island' / Lafcadio Hearn -- From 'About all kinds of ships The open boat From 'The voyage of the transports' / Richard Harding Davis -- From 'Sailing alone around the world' / Joshua Slocum -- A royal sport From 'From sail to steam' / Alfred Thayer Mahan Charles Warren Stoddard -- James H. Williams -- Mark Twain -- Stephen Crane -- Jack London -- Ile From 'The big sea' / Langston Hughes -- The fish The headlong wave Cutty Sark After the storm From 'A descent into perpetual night' / William Beebe -- The captain's table The story of sailing Havana cruise From 'Sea of Cortez' / John Steinbeck -- Cruising The death of Sergeant Alex The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket At the fishhouses The marginal world Eugene O'Neill -- Marianne Moore -- Henry Beston -- Hart Crane -- Ernest Hemingway -- Cornelia Otis Skinner -- James Thurber -- James Agee -- Alvin Kernan -- Edward V. Rickenbacker -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Rachel Carson Under Montauk light Oil The bottom of the harbor Product The sea and the wind that blows An August day's sail A presentation of whales 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. Peter Matthiessen -- Gary Snyder -- Joseph Mitchell -- George Oppen -- E.B. White -- Samuel Eliot Morison -- Barry Lopez --
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.
9781883011833
00039106
Ocean--Literary collections.
Ocean travel--Literary collections.
Seafaring life--Literary collections.
American literature.
PS509 PS509.N413.A447 2000
Foreword Introduction 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 The wonderful providence of God exemplified in the preservation of William Walling From 'The interesting narrative of the life' / Olaudah Equiano -- From 'Peculiar customs at Nantucket' / J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur Nathaniel Philbrick -- Peter Neill -- Roger Williams From 'Magnalia Christi Americana' / Cotton Mather -- William Walling -- From 'A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage' / John Ledyard -- From 'Journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition' / William Clark -- From 'Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean' / David Porter -- The voyage 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 Washington Irving -- From 'The pilot' / James Fenimore Cooper -- Old Ironsides 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 From 'Two years before the mast' / Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- Foot-prints on the sea-shore The wreck of the Hesperus From 'Voyage to the southern ocean' / William Reynolds -- From 'Cape Cod' / Henry David Thoreau Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- 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 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 From 'Remarks on board brig Thomas W. Roland' / Mary Rowland -- From 'In the monitor's turret'/ Samuel Dana Greene Herman Melville -- Walt Whitman -- From 'Memoirs of service afloat during the War Between the States' / Raphael Semmes -- Pearl-hunting in the Pomotous From 'Among the Isles of the Shoals' / Celia Thaxter -- Betrayed From 'Chita : a memory of Last Island' / Lafcadio Hearn -- From 'About all kinds of ships The open boat From 'The voyage of the transports' / Richard Harding Davis -- From 'Sailing alone around the world' / Joshua Slocum -- A royal sport From 'From sail to steam' / Alfred Thayer Mahan Charles Warren Stoddard -- James H. Williams -- Mark Twain -- Stephen Crane -- Jack London -- Ile From 'The big sea' / Langston Hughes -- The fish The headlong wave Cutty Sark After the storm From 'A descent into perpetual night' / William Beebe -- The captain's table The story of sailing Havana cruise From 'Sea of Cortez' / John Steinbeck -- Cruising The death of Sergeant Alex The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket At the fishhouses The marginal world Eugene O'Neill -- Marianne Moore -- Henry Beston -- Hart Crane -- Ernest Hemingway -- Cornelia Otis Skinner -- James Thurber -- James Agee -- Alvin Kernan -- Edward V. Rickenbacker -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Rachel Carson Under Montauk light Oil The bottom of the harbor Product The sea and the wind that blows An August day's sail A presentation of whales 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. Peter Matthiessen -- Gary Snyder -- Joseph Mitchell -- George Oppen -- E.B. White -- Samuel Eliot Morison -- Barry Lopez --
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.
9781883011833
00039106
Ocean--Literary collections.
Ocean travel--Literary collections.
Seafaring life--Literary collections.
American literature.
PS509 PS509.N413.A447 2000