Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway /

Jefferson, Sam,

Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway / Sam Jefferson. - 330 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Erskine Childers: hidden depths -- Joseph Conrad: clipper ship captain turned literary titan -- Jame 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: th e 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.

1472908813 (hbk.) 9781472908810 (hbk.)

GBB501561 bnb

017001589 Uk


Fiction--History and criticism.
Sea in literature.
Sea stories--History and criticism.
Seafaring life in literature.

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