Foreword / Nathaniel Philbrick -- Introduction / Peter Neill -- 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 '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' : "A calm"; from 'White-jacket' : "The last of the jacket"; from 'Moby-Dick' : "Midnight, forecastle", "Brit" and, "The grand armada"; from 'Israel Potter' : "They fight the serapis"; The tuft of kelp / Herman Melville -- From 'The opening of Japan' / George Henry Preble -- As I ebb'd with the ocean of life; The world below the brine; A paumanok picture; A winter day on the sea-beach; Sea-shore fancies / Walt Whitman -- From 'Remarks on board brig Thomas W. Roland' / Mary Rowland -- From 'In the monitor's turret'/ Samuel Dana Greene.
From 'Memoirs of service afloat during the War Between the States' / Raphael Semmes -- Pearl-hunting in the Pomotous / Charles Warren Stoddard -- From 'Among the Isles of the Shoals' / Celia Thaxter -- Betrayed / James H. Williams -- From 'Chita : a memory of Last Island' / Lafcadio Hearn -- From 'About all kinds of ships / 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 -- From 'Sea change : a message of the oceans' / Sylvia A. Earle -- From 'The ice : a journey to Antarctica' / Stephen J. Pyne -- From 'Looking for a ship' / John McPhee.
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