TY - BOOK AU - Jefferson,Sam ED - Adlard Coles Nautical TI - Sea fever: the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway SN - 1472908813 (hbk.) PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Adlard Coles Nautical, Bloomsbury KW - Fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Sea in literature KW - Sea stories KW - Seafaring life in literature N1 - 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 ER -