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Book of the Sea (Paperback)

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By Aubrey De Selincourt
Chatham Publishing
ISBN: 9781861762085
Published: 1st July 2003
Last Released: 14th September 2008

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This anthology of poetry and prose from Homer to T.S. Eliot describes the sea in all its moods and man's experience of it. Travellers, novelists, poets, small-boat sailors, oceanographers, deep-sea captains, have all fallen under the spell of the sea. They have been drawn by its sacred qualities, by its beauty; they have been fascinated by it, terrified by it, and experienced its loneliness and danger. And always it is seen as a metaphor for the human condition. This anthology is not about naval battles or great voyages, but the sea itself, its moods, its colour, its immediate and daily effects on those who sailed on it, and those who, living on its edge, have felt its influence, whether benign or malign. Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Milton, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Lewis Carroll, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Rupert Brooke, and T S Eliot are just some of the writers who feature in this book.

But seamen themselves have also taken up the pen, and by sampling the writings of Raleigh, Drake, Hawkins, Captain Cook and R H Dana, this anthology contains some of the most authentic writing on the sea ever collected, drawn from the experiences of these legendary sailors. Organised into chapters by theme, sections include 'Fair Weather', 'Foul Weather', 'Shipwreck', 'Daily Life' and 'Strange Adventures', and give a flavour of the sea in all its varied states.

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