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.
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.