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Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Description
How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The Beach of Falesa and The Ebb Tide? How did Masefield survive Cape Horn and a near-nervous breakdown to write Sea Fever?
The waters of this world have swirled through storytelling ever since the Celts spun the tale of Beowulf and Homer narrated The Odyssey. This enthralling book takes us on a tour of the most dangerous, exciting and often eccentric escapades of literature's sailing stars, and how these true stories inspired and informed their best-loved works. Arthur Ransome, Erskine Childers, Jack London and many others are featured as we find out how extraordinary fact fed into unforgettable fiction.
Table of Contents
Erskine Childers: Hidden depths
Joseph Conrad: Clipper ship captain turned literary titan
James Fenimore Cooper: The first of the nautical novelists
Ernest Hemingway: A strange fish
Jack London: The call of the sea
Captain Marryat: A forgotten hero of the Royal Navy
John Masefield: The seasick sailor
Herman Melville: Literary leviathan
Arthur Ransome: In search of utopia
Tobias Smollett: Grudging grandfather of the nautical novel
Robert Louis Stevenson: Home is the sailor – the final voyage
Product details
| Published | 12 Mar 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781472908827 |
| Imprint | Adlard Coles |
| Illustrations | Picture section |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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