GREAT SEA STORIES OF ALL NATIONS by Tomlinson, H. M. (editor) (Geoffrey de Vinsauf; Sir John Froissart; Elizabeth Gaskell; Charles Dickens; John Masefield; Rudolph Bedford; Frank R. Stockton; Jules Verne; Dante Alighieri; Anna Jameson; Christopher Columbus; Eannes de Zurara; J. L. Motley) - 1967

London: Spring Books, 1967. 1040 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping may be somewhat higher than normal. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; orange upper edge; headband. Edgewear on the dustjacket with a short tear on the upper right corner of the front panel; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; some foxing on the front free endpaper. This anthology contains: How Odysseus Made Himself a Raft and How Poseidon, Shaker of the Earth, Overwhelmed Him with a Storm by Homer; How the Greeks Defeated the Persians off the Isle of Salamis by Aeschylus; How the Ship Argo Passed between the Clashing Rocks by Apollonius Rhodius; How Lucian of Samothrace Voyaged to the Moon and How He Was afterward swallowed by a Whale by Lucian of Samothrace; The Might of the Whale by Oppian; How Rome Built Her First Ships and How C. Duilius Nepos Defeated the Carthaginians therewith by Polybius; How Aeolus, King of the Winds, Sent Forth a Storm Against Aeneas by Virgil; How Julius Caesar, Taking Fortune for His Comrade, Put Out in the Tumult of the Sea by Lucan; How Mark Antony, Following after Cleopatra, Fled from the Battle of Actium by Plutarch; The Gathering Together of the Waters; and The Waters of the Flood from Genesis; Jonah and the Whale from Johan; The Shipwreck of Paul from The Acts of the Apoltles; The First Voyage of Es Sindibad of the Sea (anonymous;) The Story of Abd-Allah of the Land and Abd-Allah of the Sea (anonymous;) The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant (anonymous;) How Xerxes Bridged the Hellespont by Herodotus; The Voyage of Maildun; and The Voyage of Saynt Brandon (celtic: anonymous;) How Scyld Set Forth upon His Last Voyage; and How Beowulf for the Space of Five Night Abode in the Sea from Beowulf; How Richard Coeur de Lion, Sailing to the Holy Land, Captured a Saracen Ship by Geoffrey de Vinsauf; The Battle of Espagnols-sur-Mer by Sir John Froissart; How Sir Launcelot Entered in the Ship where Sir Percivale's Sister Lay Dead: and How He Met with Sir Galahad His Son by Sir Thomas Malory; Of the Great Sea Fight between Sir Andrew Ward, Knight, and Captain Stephen Bull by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie; The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake by Richard Hakluyt; The Last Fight of the Revenge by Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh;) A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight by William Stachy; The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson by Abacuk Pricket; The Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James by Captain Thomas James; Prince Rupert's Exploits at Sea, The English Story of Four Days of Battle: 1: From Historical Memoires of the Life and Death of that Wise and Valiant Prince Rupert, Prince Palantine of the Rhine; 2: From Campbell's Naval History of Great Britain by Cap[tain Valentine Pyne; Some Adventures of Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Gulliver at Lilliput and Brobdingnag by Jonathan Swift; How Commodore Anson Came to Juan Fernandes by Richard Walter; Trafalgar by Robert Southey; Mr Midshipman Easy; and The Phantom Ship by Captain Frederick Marryat; Whitby Whalers by Elizabeth Gaskell; In the Steerage by Charles Dickens; How Gerard was Saved from the Wreck by Charles Reade; How Amyas Threw His Sword into the Sea by Charles Kingsley; The Man with the Belt of Gold by Robert Louis Stevenson; Abandoning Ship by Joseph Conrad; In the Abyss by H. G. Wells; The Derelict by H. M. Tomlinson; Davy Jones' Gift by John Masefield; T'Wind'ard! by Captain David Bone; The Voyage of the James Caird by Sir Ernest Shackleton; How the Cutty Sark Raced the Thermopylae by Basil Lubbock; The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton; The Sealing of Zeebrugge by Sir Archibald Hurd; The Fruits of Toil by Norman Duncan; Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock by Randolph Bedford; The Voyage of the Mayflower by William Bradford; The Phantom Island by Washington Irving; The Red Rover and the Royal Caroline by J. Fenimore Cooper; A Descent in the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe; Homeward Bound; and Storm in the Pacific by Richard Henry Dana; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; How Quintus Arrius Defeated the Pirates by Lew Wallace; The Skipper and El Capitan by Frank R. Stockton; High-water Mark by Francis Bret Harte; The Devil at Sea by Henry van Dyke; How the Gardener's Son Fought the Serapis by Winston Churchill; The Merrimac and the Monitor by Mary Johnston; Bound for Rio Grande by A. E. Dingle; Rounding Cape Horn by Felix Riesenberg; The Yellow Cat by Wilbur Daniel Steele; How Pantagruel Met with a Great Storm at Sea and of What Countenances Panurge and Friar John Kept Therein by Francois Rabelais; How Captain Jean Ribault Came to Florida and What Befell the Men He Left There by Rene de Laudonniere; Telemachus in the Island of Cyprus by Francois de la Mothe Fenelon; Shipwreck of a Modest Young Lady by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre; How Malicious Gilliatt Fought the Tempest; and The Gunner's Fight with the Cannonade by Victor Hugo; How Dantes Escaped from the Chateau d'If by Alexandre Dumas; A Whale of Unknown Species; and Atlantis by Jules Verne; The Ocean Christ by Anatole France; Iceland Fishermen by Pierre Loti; The Last Voyage of Ulysses by Dante Alighieri; The Legend of St Mark and the Fishermen of Venice by Anna Jameson; The Poetic Tempest by Francesco Petrarca; How Landolfo Ruffolo Turned Pirate; and How Prince Gerbino Fought the Galley of the King of Tunis by Giovanni Boccaccio; How Il Solitario Escaped from Caprera by Giuseppe Garibaldi; Ugly Weather by Giovanni Verga; The End by Guido Milanesi; The First Voyage Take by the Admiral Don Cristobal Colon when He Discovered the Indies by Christopher Columbus; How Vasco Nunez de Balboa Discovered the Pacific from Pinkerton's Voyages; How Fernan de Magalhaes Sailed into the Southern Sea - and the Manner of His Death by Anthony Pigapheta; The Battle of Lepanto by W. H. Prescott; The Beautiful Morisca by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; The Invincible Armada; and The Return by James Anthony Froude; The Fishermen of Rodillero by Armando Palacio Valdes; The Triton; and Mare Nostrum by Vicente Blasco Ibanez; How the Page of Prince Henry the Navigator Brought Home the Ship by Eannes de Zurara; The Story of Gaspar and Miguel Corte Real by Damiao de Goes; How Vasco da Gama Came to the Land of Calicut by Luis de Camoes; Sea by Antrea Karkavitsas; The Beggars of Zealand by Charles de Coster; The Flying Dutchman by Auguste Jal; How William the Silent Opened the Gates of the Sea by J. L. Motley; The Dutch Story of the Four Days' Battle from The Life of Cornelius van Tromp; A Whaling Voyage in Sptizbergen by Frederick Martens; Baron Munchausen Tells of the Pranks of a Whale and of What Happened on a Voyage to the Indies by Rudolf Erich Raspe; The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm; How the Glack Galley Took the Andrea Doria by Wilhelm Raabe; Of the Company of Privateers by J. G. Lockhart; The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall by Henryk Sienkiewicz; How Vainamoinen was Born of the Mother of the Sea from The Kalevala; The Smuggler by Aino Kallas; Onund Treefoot from The Saga of Grettir the Strong; How Ellidi the Dragon Ship, at the Command of Frithiof the Bold, Drove Down upon the Witches from The Saga of Frithiof the Bold; How the Norsemen Discovered America by Snorre Sturlason; The Cormorants of Andvaer by Jonas Lie; How Dammitall-with-the-Limp Saved the Crew of the Seal by Johan Bojer; The Outcast by Selma Lagerlof; The Ship by Verner von Heidenstam; The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen; The Cruise of the Wild Duck by Holger Drachmann; How the Empress Jingo Sailed unto the Land called Chosen from The Nihongi.. First Printing - First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo.