Great Stories of the Sea & Ships

Great Stories of the Sea & Ships
Title Great Stories of the Sea & Ships PDF eBook
Author Newell Convers Wyeth
Publisher
Pages 431
Release 1992-05
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780883657072

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A selection of thirty-four works about the sea by such authors as Homer, Hans Christian Andersen, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Christopher Columbus, Daniel Defoe, and others.

Stories of Ships and the Sea

Stories of Ships and the Sea
Title Stories of Ships and the Sea PDF eBook
Author Jack London
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 42
Release 2017-08-08
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1387152610

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A collection of Jack London sea stories. CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN (Excerpt) ""If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug!' you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots!' you vood get der boots. Und you vood pe politeful, und say 'Yessir' und 'No sir.' But you pe in der American ship, and you t'ink you are so good as der able seamen. Chris, mine boy, I haf ben a sailorman for twenty-two years, und do you t'ink you are so good as me? I vas a sailorman pefore you vas borned, und I knot und reef und splice ven you play mit topstrings und fly kites."" ""But you are unfair, Emil!"" cried Chris Farrington, his sensitive face flushed and hurt. He was a slender though strongly built young fellow of seventeen, with Yankee ancestry writ large all over him...

Short Stories of the Sea

Short Stories of the Sea
Title Short Stories of the Sea PDF eBook
Author George C. Solley
Publisher
Pages 586
Release 1984
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A collection of short stories that involve the sea.

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Title Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea PDF eBook
Author Gary Kinder
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages 526
Release 2009-10-20
Genre Transportation
ISBN 155584796X

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“Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek

On a Sea of Glass

On a Sea of Glass
Title On a Sea of Glass PDF eBook
Author Tad Fitch
Publisher Amberley Publishing Limited
Pages 1093
Release 2013-07-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1445614391

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A sumptuously illustrated history of the Titanic, her sinking and its aftermath.

Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail

Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail
Title Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail PDF eBook
Author Elliot Snow
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 434
Release 1986-01-01
Genre Transportation
ISBN 9780486251776

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Firsthand accounts of thrilling adventures on the high seas — of surviving on an uninhabited island, of narrowly escaping capture in the Pacific Islands where Capt. James Cook was killed, encounters with savage natives in the South Seas and more. A vivid picture of life aboard the "tall ships" of a century and more ago.

Stories of the Sea

Stories of the Sea
Title Stories of the Sea PDF eBook
Author Diana Secker Tesdell
Publisher Everyman Paperback Classics
Pages 400
Release 2010
Genre Sea stories, American
ISBN 9781841596051

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Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury's 'The Fog Horn' summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updike's lovers retrace the route of Homer's Odyssey on a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' to Ernest Hemingway's chilling 'After the Storm', the stories here are as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.