Great Stories of the Sea and Ships (Illustrated by Peter Hurd) by N. C. Wyeth

GREAT STORIES OF THE SEA AND SHIPS

Edited by N. C. WYETH
Illustrated by PETER HURD

This collection of sea stories contains classics from all ages and nations -- from Homer's description of the raft of Odysseus to a vivid report by Jack London of a ferry-boat collision in San Francisco harbor.

Here are tales of proud sailing ships by Melville, Dana, Kingsley, Victor Hugo anf Cooper. Heroic naval battles -- Trafalgar, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the fight of the Monitor and the Merrimac, John Paul Jone's capture of the Serapis. Historic accounts of the discovery of America, the mutiny of the Bounty, the settlement of Florida. Legends and superstitions made real by Washington Irving, Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Here are whaling yarns, tales of castaways and smugglers. Thrilling adventure on the seven seas -- from Iceland to Cape Horn. Here, indeed, are ''great stories of the sea and ships!''

N. C. Wyeth says, 'I feel secure in asserting that there is hardly a page in the present volume but what contains a vivid spark while will ignite and explode into pure brilliance some dormant joy which is linked to the sea. One will find, in these stories, its effable beauty, its dynamic and ruthless power, and its teeming romance.'

Hans Christian Anderson                  Jack London
James Boyd                                         Pierre Loti
Frank T. Bullen                                     Captain Marryat
Christopher Columbus                       John Masefield
James Fenimore Cooper                   Herman Melville
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.                     Guy Martin, Jr.
Daniel Defoe                                        Edgar Allan Poe
Alexander Dumas                               Sir Walker Raleigh
Elizabeth Gaskell                                Charles Reade
Richard Hakluyt                                  Morgan Robertson
Homer                                                  Michael Scott
Victor Hugo                                         Robert Southey
Washington Irving                              Robert Louis Stevenson
Mary Johntson                                   Jules Verne
Charles Kingsley                                 Rudyard Kipling