The greatest sailing stories ever told /
edited and with introductions by Christopher Caswell.
- xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-285).
Close encounter / story of sailing / making of a yachtsman / All at sea / boat journey / August day's sail / About Figaro / crystal coast / Aloft on the Flying Cloud / sea and the wind that blows / Overwhelmed / Sailing alone around the world / Down spinnaker! / Rendezvous / Smith versus Lichtensteiger / Being ashore / Captain Jim and Reynard / Yachtswoman solo / Daysail content? / Owen Chase's narrative / Kidnapped / Hornblower and the man who felt queer / Pacific passage / Call me Ishmael / "100 tons of bronze, son" / Service in the Mediterranean / Pete Goss. -- James Thurber. -- Sterling Hayden. -- Conrad Miller. -- Ray Whitaker. -- Epilogue / Ernest K. Gann. -- Sir Ernest Shackleton. -- Samuel Eliot Morison. -- William Snaith. -- Tristan Jones. -- Morley Roberts. -- E.B. White. -- Captain James Riley. -- Joshua Slocum. -- Philip Holland. -- Charles Rawlings. -- Weston Martyr. -- John Masefield. -- Marjorie Young Burgess. -- Ann Davison. -- David Kasanof. -- Owen Chase. -- William Albert Robinson. -- C.S. Forester. -- William F. Buckley. -- Herman Melville. -- Cleveland Amory. -- Admiral Lord Cochrane. The The fisherman's cup races / The The An The The A
1585745146 1592283195 (trade paper) 9781592283194
2004040947
Sea stories, English.
Sea stories, American.
Sailing--Fiction.
Sailing.
PR1309.S4 / G85 2004
823.0108091
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-285).
Close encounter / story of sailing / making of a yachtsman / All at sea / boat journey / August day's sail / About Figaro / crystal coast / Aloft on the Flying Cloud / sea and the wind that blows / Overwhelmed / Sailing alone around the world / Down spinnaker! / Rendezvous / Smith versus Lichtensteiger / Being ashore / Captain Jim and Reynard / Yachtswoman solo / Daysail content? / Owen Chase's narrative / Kidnapped / Hornblower and the man who felt queer / Pacific passage / Call me Ishmael / "100 tons of bronze, son" / Service in the Mediterranean / Pete Goss. -- James Thurber. -- Sterling Hayden. -- Conrad Miller. -- Ray Whitaker. -- Epilogue / Ernest K. Gann. -- Sir Ernest Shackleton. -- Samuel Eliot Morison. -- William Snaith. -- Tristan Jones. -- Morley Roberts. -- E.B. White. -- Captain James Riley. -- Joshua Slocum. -- Philip Holland. -- Charles Rawlings. -- Weston Martyr. -- John Masefield. -- Marjorie Young Burgess. -- Ann Davison. -- David Kasanof. -- Owen Chase. -- William Albert Robinson. -- C.S. Forester. -- William F. Buckley. -- Herman Melville. -- Cleveland Amory. -- Admiral Lord Cochrane. The The fisherman's cup races / The The An The The A
1585745146 1592283195 (trade paper) 9781592283194
2004040947
Sea stories, English.
Sea stories, American.
Sailing--Fiction.
Sailing.
PR1309.S4 / G85 2004
823.0108091