GREAT STORIES OF THE SEA AND SHIPS

Wyeth, N. C. (editor) (Hans Christian Anderson; Christopher Columbus; Richard Henry Dana; Alexander Dumas; Elizabeth Gaskell; Richard Hakluyt; Victor Hugo; Mary Johnston; Jack London; John Masefield; Herman Melville; Jules Verne; Rudyard Kipling)

ISBN 10: 0883657074 / ISBN 13: 9780883657072

Published by Galahad Books, New York, 1992

About this Item

431 pp. Quarter-bound in black on charcoal gray boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by N. C. Wyeth. Illustrated with 18 drawings by Peter Hurd. This collection contains: Foreword by N. C. Wyeth; The Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson; The Fight in the Foretop by James Boyd; Collision at Sea by Frank T. Bullen; The Voyage of 1492 by Christopher Columbus; The Wreck of the Royal Caroline by James Fenimore Cooper; Death at Sea; and North Wester by Richard Henry Dana; Three Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Dante's Escape from the Chateau D'If by Alexander (Alexandre) Dumas; The Specksioneer by Elizabeth Gaskell; How Captain John Ribault Planted a Colony in Florida by Richard Hakluyt; The Raft of Odysseus by Homer; The Devil Fish; and An Imprisoned Thunderstorm by Victor Hugo; The Phantom Island by Washington Irving; The Iron Clads by Mary Johnston; How Amyas Threw His Sword Into the Sea by Charles Kingsley; Fog by Jack London; Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti; Mr Midshipman Easy Makes a Bet by Captain Marryat; The Flight of the Smugglers by John Masefield; The Great White Whale; and Rounding Cape Horn by Herman Melville; The Mutiny on the Bounty by Guy Murchie; A Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Richard Grenville and the Spanish Armada by Sir Walter Raleigh; Attacked by Pirates by Charles Reade; The Derelict Neptune by Morgan Robertson; The Cruise of the Torch by Michael Scott; Trafalgar by Robert Southey; The Man with the Belt of Gold by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Rescue of a Castaway; and An Unknown Species of Whale by Jules Verne; and The Ballad of Clampherdown by Rudyard Kipling. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GREAT STORIES OF THE SEA AND SHIPS
• Publisher: Galahad Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883657074
• ISBN 13: 9780883657072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Peter Hurd
• Edition: Later Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

More than 50,000 copies of this exhilarating collection of high-seas adventures are already in print. Not only does it showcase the fiction of such classic writers as Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, and Jack London, but the entries also feature historic first-person narratives, including Christopher Columbus’s own account of his famous voyage in 1492. Every page offers excitement, from vivid tales of heroic naval battles and dangerous journeys of exploration to the thrilling stories of castaways and smugglers. The astonishing variety of works includes “The Raft of Odysseus,” by Homer; Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Mermaid”; “The Specksioneer,” by Elizabeth Gaskell; Washington Irving’s “The Phantom Island”; and “Rounding Cape Horn,” by Herman Melville. Eighteen extraordinary black and white illustrations by Peter Hurd add to the volume's beauty.