American sea writing: a literary anthology

from A true reportory of the wrack and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight / William Strachey

from History of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford

Of the sea / Roger Williams

from Magnalia Christi Americana / Cotton Mather

The wonderful providence of God exemplified in the preservation of William Walling / William Walling

from The interesting narrative of the life / Olaudah Equiano

from Peculiar customs at Nantucket / J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur

from A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage / John Ledyard

from The journals of the Lewis & Clark expedition / William Clark

from Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / David Porter

The voyage / Washington Irving

from A narrative of voyages and travels in the northern and southern hemispheres / Amasa Delano

from Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket / Owen Chase

from A narrative of the mutiny on board the ship Globe / William Lay and Cyrus M. Hussey

from The pilot / James Fenimore Cooper

Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes

from Journal of a young actress / Fanny Kemble

from A summer cruise in the Mediterranean / Nathaniel Parker Willis

from Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson

MS. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe

from Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Foot-prints on the sea-shore / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

from Voyage to the southern ocean / William Reynolds

from Cape Cod / Henry David Thoreau

from Mardi ; from White-jacket ; from Moby-Dick ; from Israel Potter ; The tuft of kelp / Herman Melville

from The opening of Japan / George Henry Preble

As I ebb'd with the ocean of life ; The wos / Mark Twain

The open boat / Stephen Crane

from The voyage of the transports / Richard Harding Davis

from Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum

A royal sport / Jack London

from From sail to steam / Alfred Thayer Mahan

Ile / Eugene O'Neill

from The big sea / Langston Hughes

The fish / Marianne Moore

The headlong wave / Henry Beston

Cutty Sark / Hart Crane

After the storm / Ernest Hemingway

from A descent into perpetual night / William Beebe

The captain's table / Cornelia Otis Skinner

The story of sailing / James Thurber

Havana cruise / James Agee

from Sea of Cortez / John Steinbeck

Cruising / Alvin Kernan

The death of Sergeant Alex / Edward V. Rickenbacker

The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell

At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop

The marginal world / Rachel Carson

Under Montauk Light / Peter Matthiessen

Oil / Gary Snyder

The bottom of the harbor / Joseph Mitchell

Product / George Oppen

The sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White

An August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison

A presentation of whales / Barry Lopez

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