Stories of the Sea: 25 Classic Nautical Adventure Tales!

by Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, R.M. Ballantyne, Jack London, Greatest Hits Series (Created by)

Overview

Get ready for the voyage of your life with this massive anthology of some of the greatest sea adventures ever wrote!

The following works are included in the collection:
Across the Spanish Main by Harry Collingwood
Adrift in a Boat by W.H.G. Kingston
The Battery and the Boiler by R.M. Ballantyne
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Black Bartlemy’s Treasure by Jeffrey Farnol
The Boats of the 'Glen-Carrig' by William Hope Hodgson
The Cannibal Islands by R.M. Ballantyne
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Captain Scraggs by Peter B. Kyne
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
Homeward Bound by James Fenimore Cooper
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens
Moby Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville
Omoo by Herman Melville
Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl at Home by Gabrielle E. Jackson
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Edited by Logan Marshall
The U-boat hunters by James B. Connolly
The Sea-Hawk by Raphael Sabatini
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. Tomlinson
The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014411486
Publisher:	Douglas Editions
Publication date:	05/09/2012
Series:	Greatest Hits Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15