Record details

• ISBN: 0192824155
• ISBN: 9780192824158
• Physical Description: 410 pages ; 20 cm.
• Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1995.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Initiation / Joseph Conrad -- The voyage / Washington Irving -- A descent into the maelstrom / Edgar Allan Poe -- I have been drowned / Tom Hopkinson -- Mocha Dick / J.N. Reynolds -- The chase / Herman Melville -- A tragedy of error / Henry James -- High-water mark / Francis Bret Harte -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Make westing / Jack London -- A matter of fact / Rudyard Kipling -- In the abyss / H.G. Wells -- The cruise of the Willing Mind / A.E.W. Mason -- The terror of the sea caves / Charles G.D. Roberts -- False colours / W.W. Jacobs -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The ghost ship / Richard Middleton -- Ambitious Jimmy Hicks / John Masefield -- Poor old man! / A.E. Dingle -- Easting down / Shalimar -- The story of the siren / E.M. Forster -- The rough crossing / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- After the storm / Ernest Hemingway -- The bravest boat / Malcolm Lowry -- The boy stood on the burning deck / C.S. Forester -- Turnabout / William Faulkner -- The frontiers of the sea / Peter Ustinov.

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Sea stories, English.
Sea stories, American.