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245 0 0 _aAmerican sea writing :
_ba literary anthology /
_cPeter Neill, editor ; foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.
_hPR
260 _aNew York :
_bLibrary of America,
_c(c)2000.
300 _axxi, 671 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _a1 (pages 667-671).
505 0 0 _aForeword
_rNathaniel Philbrick --
_tIntroduction
_rPeter Neill --
_tFrom 'A true reportory of the wrack'; and, 'Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight' / William Strachey --
_tFrom 'History of Plymouth Plantation' / William Bradford --
_tOf the sea
_rRoger Williams
_rFrom 'Magnalia Christi Americana' / Cotton Mather --
_tThe wonderful providence of God exemplified in the preservation of William Walling
_rWilliam Walling --
_tFrom 'The interesting narrative of the life' / Olaudah Equiano --
_tFrom 'Peculiar customs at Nantucket' / J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur
505 0 0 _aFrom 'A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage' / John Ledyard --
_tFrom 'Journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition' / William Clark --
_tFrom 'Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean' / David Porter --
_tThe voyage
_rWashington Irving --
_tFrom 'A narrative of voyages and travels in the northern and southern hemispheres' / Amasa Delano --
_tFrom 'Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket' / Owen Chase --
_tFrom 'A narrative of the mutiny on board the ship Globe' / William Lay and Cyrus M. Hussey
505 0 0 _aFrom 'The pilot' / James Fenimore Cooper --
_tOld Ironsides
_rOliver Wendell Holmes --
_tFrom 'Journal of a young actress' / Fanny Kemble --
_tFrom 'A summer cruise in the Mediterranean' / Nathaniel Parker Willis --
_tFrom 'Journals' / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
_tMs. found in a bottle
_rEdgar Allan Poe --
_tFrom 'Two years before the mast' / Richard Henry Dana Jr. --
_tFoot-prints on the sea-shore
_rNathaniel Hawthorne --
_tThe wreck of the Hesperus
_rHenry Wadsworth Longfellow --
_tFrom 'Voyage to the southern ocean' / William Reynolds --
_tFrom 'Cape Cod' / Henry David Thoreau
505 0 0 _aFrom '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
_rHerman Melville --
_tFrom 'The opening of Japan' / George Henry Preble --
_tAs 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
_rWalt Whitman --
_tFrom 'Remarks on board brig Thomas W. Roland' / Mary Rowland --
_tFrom 'In the monitor's turret'/ Samuel Dana Greene
505 0 0 _aFrom 'Memoirs of service afloat during the War Between the States' / Raphael Semmes --
_tPearl-hunting in the Pomotous
_rCharles Warren Stoddard --
_tFrom 'Among the Isles of the Shoals' / Celia Thaxter --
_tBetrayed
_rJames H. Williams --
_tFrom 'Chita : a memory of Last Island' / Lafcadio Hearn --
_tFrom 'About all kinds of ships
_rMark Twain --
_tThe open boat
_rStephen Crane --
_tFrom 'The voyage of the transports' / Richard Harding Davis --
_tFrom 'Sailing alone around the world' / Joshua Slocum --
_tA royal sport
_rJack London --
_tFrom 'From sail to steam' / Alfred Thayer Mahan
505 0 0 _aIle
_rEugene O'Neill --
_tFrom 'The big sea' / Langston Hughes --
_tThe fish
_rMarianne Moore --
_tThe headlong wave
_rHenry Beston --
_tCutty Sark
_rHart Crane --
_tAfter the storm
_rErnest Hemingway --
_tFrom 'A descent into perpetual night' / William Beebe --
_tThe captain's table
_rCornelia Otis Skinner --
_tThe story of sailing
_rJames Thurber --
_tHavana cruise
_rJames Agee --
_tFrom 'Sea of Cortez' / John Steinbeck --
_tCruising
_rAlvin Kernan --
_tThe death of Sergeant Alex
_rEdward V. Rickenbacker --
_tThe Quaker graveyard in Nantucket
_rRobert Lowell --
_tAt the fishhouses
_rElizabeth Bishop --
_tThe marginal world
_rRachel Carson
505 0 0 _aUnder Montauk light
_rPeter Matthiessen --
_tOil
_rGary Snyder --
_tThe bottom of the harbor
_rJoseph Mitchell --
_tProduct
_rGeorge Oppen --
_tThe sea and the wind that blows
_rE.B. White --
_tAn August day's sail
_rSamuel Eliot Morison --
_tA presentation of whales
_rBarry Lopez --
_tFrom 'Sea change : a message of the oceans' / Sylvia A. Earle --
_tFrom 'The ice : a journey to Antarctica' / Stephen J. Pyne --
_tFrom 'Looking for a ship' / John McPhee.
520 0 _aThis 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.
530 _a2
650 0 _aOcean
_vLiterary collections.
650 0 _aOcean travel
_vLiterary collections.
650 0 _aSeafaring life
_vLiterary collections.
650 0 _aAmerican literature.
700 1 _aNeill, Peter,
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