Men at Sea: The Best Sea Stories of All Time

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Brandt Aymar Sea Adventurers ESCAPE FROM SCYLLA-CHARYBDIS, THEN SHIPWRECK Homer, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley / The Odyssey THE FLOGGING AND ARRIVAL IN SAN DIEGO Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Two Years Before The Mast THE VOYAGE OF THE LIBERDADE Joshua Slocum / The Voyages of Joshua Slocum HALFWAY Thor Heyerdahl / Kon-Tiki GIPSY MOTH CAPSIZES IN THE TASMAN SEA Sir Francis Chichester / Gipsy Moth Circles the World Sea Battles THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS Herodotus, translated by Isaac Littlebury / The History of Herodotus BEN-HUR ESCAPES FROM THE ASTROEA Lewis Wallace / Ben-Hur THE ESCAPE OF THE PRIMROSE Richard Hakluyt / The Principal Navigators of the English Nation THE GREAT ARMADA Charles Kingsley / Westward Ho! THE ARIEL DEFEATS THE ALACRITY James Fenimore Cooper / The Pilot THE BATTLE OF BONHOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS Valentine Thomson / Knight of the Seas TRAFALGAR Robert Southey / The Life of Nelson THE CONSTITUTION CAPTURES THE GUERRIERE Theodore Roosevelt / The Naval War of 1812 THE BLOW-UP OF THE MOHAWK William Robinson / Yankee Middy THE SINKING OF THE CONFEDERATE STEAMER ALABAMA John McIntosh Kell / Recollections of Naval Life THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY George Dewey / The Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND Jacques Mordal, translated by Len Ortzen /25 Centuries of Sea Warfare THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK C. S. Forester / The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck HOSPITAL SHIP RAMS U-BOAT Alistair MacLean / San Andreas THE DEFEAT OF THE YORKTOWN Walter Lord / Incredible Victory Sea Disasters A WILD CANNON DOOMS THE CLAYMORE Victor Hugo / Ninety-Three THE LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE Sir Ernest Shackleton / South THE TORPEDOING OF THE LUSITANIA David Butler / Lusitania THE BURNING OF THE MORRO CASTLE Thomas Gallagher / Fire at Sea THE SINKING OF THE SQUALUS Nat A. Barrows / Blow All Ballast! THE FOG William Hoffer / Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria Sea Divers CAPTAIN NEMO'S REVENGE Jules Verne / Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea TEDDY TUCKER, BERMUDA DIVER Robert F. Marx / Sea Fever THE CANNONS OF THE A TOCHA Robert Daley / Treasure Sea Explorers FIRST CROSSING OF THE ATLANTIC Samuel Eliot Morison / Christopher Columbus, Mariner THE AMBUSH AND DEATH OF MAGELLAN Charles McKew Parr / Ferdinand Magellan, Circumnavigator THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER William Bradford / The History of Plymouth Settlement THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK Andrew Kippis / The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook SOUTHWARD HO TO THE POLE Richard Evelyn Byrd / Discovery U.S.S. SKATE SURFACES AT NORTH POLE James Calvert / Surface at the Pole Sea Life THE MIDSHIPMAN Frederick Marryat / Stories of the Sea LIFE IN THE FORECASTLE William McFee / Casuals of the Sea ALOFT ON THE FLYING CLOUD Morley Roberts / The Flying Cloud THE FIGHT WITH THE SHARKS Ernest Hemingway / The Old Man and the Sea REACHING MARBELLA William F. Buckley, Jr. / Atlantic High Sea Mutinies SLAVER: THE AMISTAD A.B.C. Whipple / Tall Ships and G