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James Fenimore Cooper: Sea Tales (LOA #54)
Two Years Before the Mast
In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage …
The Water-Witch
Seasoning: Poems by Marianne Philbrick
The Private Journal of William Reynolds
One of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in existence, and a principle source for Sea of Glory, The Private Journal of William Reynolds brings …
The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk By a Whale
The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the Sea.In 1820, the Nantucket …
James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction
The Crater
Excerpt: ...the American axe. But it was not quite so easy to get the timber down to the cove. The keel, in particular, gave a good deal of trouble. Heaton had brought along with …
Water-Witch
Chiefly set on the waters and islands of New York Harbor in the early years of the 1700s, James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Water-Witch (1830) paints a vivid picture of life in the …
Sailing Alone Around the World
First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable and entertaining travel narratives of all time. …