To the Sea Again: Classic Sailing Stories by Tom McCarthy

By Tom McCarthy

Few humans would need to check their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an indignant whale sends his send to the ground, millions of miles from the closest land. yet it is fairly one other factor to learn those precise money owed whereas settled right into a favourite chair. Shackleton and Chase endured within the face of travails that may have given even task pause. Their stoic bills are better and extra dramatic for his or her overall loss of affection, their frankness, and their loss of ego. Their gripping tales are customized made for the resourceful reader who seeks experience in a extra managed atmosphere, secure and hot, and good fed. Civilized readers with their armchairs anchored firmly to the lounge floor.

Rich in drama and heritage, listed below are fifteen tales that may entertain, tell, and inspire--enduring tales that experience attracted generations of readers.

With contributions from:
William Shakespeare
Aaron Smith
Joseph Conrad
Erskine Childers
Joshua Slocum
James Fenimore Cooper
Herman Melville
Richard Henry Dana
Jerome okay. Jerome
Edgar Allan Poe
Richard Hakluyt
Robert Louis Stevenson
Owen Chase
Ernest Shackleton

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