The greatest sailing stories ever told / edited and with introductions by Christopher Caswell.

Contributor(s): Caswell, Christopher [editor]
Publisher: Guilford, Conn. : Lyon's Press, c2004Description: xii, 286 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1585745146; 1592283195 (trade paper); 9781592283194Subject(s): Sea stories, English | Sea stories, American | Sailing -- Fiction | SailingDDC classification: 823.0108091 LOC classification: PR1309.S4 | G85 2004Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Close encounter / Pete Goss. -- story of sailing / James Thurber. -- Sterling Hayden. -- making of a yachtsman / Conrad Miller. -- All at sea / Ray Whitaker. -- Epilogue / Ernest K. Gann. -- boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton. -- August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison. -- About Figaro / William Snaith. -- crystal coast / Tristan Jones. -- Aloft on the Flying Cloud / Morley Roberts. -- sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White. -- Overwhelmed / Captain James Riley. -- Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum. -- Down spinnaker! / Philip Holland. -- Rendezvous / Charles Rawlings. -- Smith versus Lichtensteiger / Weston Martyr. -- Being ashore / John Masefield. -- Captain Jim and Reynard / Marjorie Young Burgess. -- Yachtswoman solo / Ann Davison. -- Daysail content? / David Kasanof. -- Owen Chase's narrative / Owen Chase. -- Kidnapped / William Albert Robinson. -- Hornblower and the man who felt queer / C.S. Forester. -- Pacific passage / William F. Buckley. -- Call me Ishmael / Herman Melville. -- "100 tons of bronze, son" / Cleveland Amory. -- Service in the Mediterranean / Admiral Lord Cochrane.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-285).

Close encounter / Pete Goss. -- The story of sailing / James Thurber. -- The fisherman's cup races / Sterling Hayden. -- The making of a yachtsman / Conrad Miller. -- All at sea / Ray Whitaker. -- Epilogue / Ernest K. Gann. -- The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton. -- An August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison. -- About Figaro / William Snaith. -- The crystal coast / Tristan Jones. -- Aloft on the Flying Cloud / Morley Roberts. -- The sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White. -- Overwhelmed / Captain James Riley. -- Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum. -- Down spinnaker! / Philip Holland. -- Rendezvous / Charles Rawlings. -- Smith versus Lichtensteiger / Weston Martyr. -- Being ashore / John Masefield. -- Captain Jim and Reynard / Marjorie Young Burgess. -- Yachtswoman solo / Ann Davison. -- Daysail content? / David Kasanof. -- Owen Chase's narrative / Owen Chase. -- Kidnapped / William Albert Robinson. -- Hornblower and the man who felt queer / C.S. Forester. -- A Pacific passage / William F. Buckley. -- Call me Ishmael / Herman Melville. -- "100 tons of bronze, son" / Cleveland Amory. -- Service in the Mediterranean / Admiral Lord Cochrane.

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