Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway / Sam Jefferson.
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TextPublisher: London : Adlard Coles Nautical, Bloomsbury, 2015Description: 330 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1472908813 (hbk.)
- 9781472908810 (hbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | NonFiction | 809.3932 J45 | Available | 33111008017945 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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.