MEN AT SEA by Aymar, Brandt (editor) (Homer; Richard Henry Dana; Joshua Slocum; Thor Heyerdahl; Sir Francis Chichester; Herodotus; Lew Wallace; Richard Hakluyt; Charles Kingsley; James Fenimore Cooper; Valentine Thomson; Robert Southey; Theodore Roosevelt) - 1992

Chatham, England: PRC - Coles Publishing, 1992. (xiii) 640 pp. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Dj art by Francesca Pelizzoli. This anthology contains: Escape from Scylla-Charybdis then Shipwreck - excerpt from The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley; The Flogging and Arrival in San Diego - excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana; The Voyage of the Liberdade - excerpt from The Voyages of Joshua Slocum by Joshua Slocum; Halfway - excerpt from Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl; Gipsy Moth Capsizes in the Tasman Sea - excerpt from Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Sir Francis Chichester; The Battle of Salamis - excerpt from The History of Herodutus, translated by Isaac Littlebury; Ben Hur Escapes from the Astroea - excerpt from Ben Hur by Lew Wallace; The Escape of the Primrose - excerpt from The Principal Navigators of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt; The Great Armada - excerpt from Westward Ho by Charles Kingsley; The Ariel Defeats the Alacrity - excerpt from The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper; The Battle of Bonhomme Richard and Serapis - excerpt from Knight of the Seas by Valentine Thomson; Trafalgar - excerpt from The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey; The Constitution Captures the Guerriere - excerpt from The Naval War of 1813 by Theodore Roosevelt; The Blow Up of the Mohawk - excerpt from Yankee Middy by William Robinson; The Sinking of the Confederate Steamer Alabama - excerpt from Recollections of a Naval Life by John McIntosh Kell; The Battle of Manila Bay - excerpt from The Autobiography of George Dewey Admiral of the Navy; The Battle of Jutland - excerpt from 25 Centuries of Sea Warfare by Jacques Mordal, translated by Len Ortzen; The Sinking of the Bismarck - excerpt from The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester; Hospital Ship Rams U-Boat - excerpt from San Andreas by Alistair MacLean; The Defeat of the Yorktown - excerpt from Incredible Victory by Walter Lord; A Wild Cannon Dooms the Claymore - excerpt from Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo; The Loss of the Endurance - excerpt from South by Sir Ernest Shackleton; The Torpedoing of the Lusitania - excerpt from Lusitania by Davis Butler; The Burning of Morro Castle - excerpt from Fire at Sea by Thomas Gallagher; The Sinking of the Squalus - excerpt from Blow All Ballast by Nat A. Barrows; The Fog - excerpt from Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria by William Hoffer; Captain Nemo's Revenge - excerpt from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; Teddy Tucker Bermuda Diver - excerpt from Sea Fever by Robert F. Marx; The Cannons of the Atocha - excerpt from Treasure by Robert Daley; First Crossing of the Atlantic - excerpt from Christopher Columbus Mariner by Samuel Eliot Morison; The Ambush and Death of Magellan - excerpt from Ferdinand Magellan Circumnavigator by Charles McKew Parr; The Voyage of the Mayflower - excerpt from The History of the Plymouth Settlement by William Bradford; The Death of Captain Cook - excerpt from The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook by Andrew Kippis; Southward Ho to the Pole - excerpt from Discover by Richard Evelyn Bird; U.S.S. Skate Surfaces at the North Pole - excerpt from Surface at the Pole by James Calvert; The Midshipman - from Stories of the Sea by Frederick Marryat; Life in the Forecastle - excerpt from Casuals of the Sea by William McFee; Aloft on the Flying Cloud - excerpt from The Flying Cloud by Morley Roberts; The Fight with the Sharks - excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; Reaching Marbella - excerpt from Atlantic High by William F. Buckley; Slaver: The Amistad - excerpt from Tall Ships and Great Captains by A. B. C. Whipple; The Mutiny - excerpt from The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk; The Giant Ship - excerpt from Wander Ships by William Bassett; The Craft of Death - excerpt from Master Sea Stories by R. T. Ross; The Phantom Death - from The Phantom Death and Other Stories by W. Clar. First Printing - First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Francesca Pelizzoli;. 8vo. Book.