American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology

Interesting collection of sea/beach/sailing literature--fiction, poetry, history, biography, science. Grab bag arranged in chronological order is fast reading that can inspire, frighten, enlighten, amuse, and encourage.

A terrific collection of stories and tales and poems about the sea, from all the usual suspects plus some you might not have thought of--Thoreau, for example, on the wreak of an immigrant ship, or Langston Hughes on his trip on an old cargo ship to Africa--and some you won't have read but really should--like Fanny Kemble's diary notes on her trip "over" to the new world, and what the weather was like, how the food was, who she met and what they spoke of . . . this is a magnificant collection of American authors.