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The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on land—the silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea. Not a breath came from the dead air. Not a ripple stirred on the motionless water. Nothing changed but the softly-growing light; nothing moved but the lazy mist, curling up to meet the sun, its master, on the eastward sea. By fine gradations, the airy veil of morning thinned in substance as it rose—thinned, till there dawned through it in the first rays of sunlight the tall white sails of a Schooner Yacht. From stem to stern silence possessed the vessel—as silence possessed the sea.

Product Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes four stories―two set on stormy seas, two on calm seas, all four based on the same incident―that speak to each other in interesting ways. The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them...read more

This collection of the author's stories of the sea includes adventures of wartime battles, rescues from sinking ships, and gunboat espionage

Product Description: 'Youth', Heart of Darkness and 'The End of the Tether' make up Conrad's most celebrated collection of short narratives. Heart of Darkness forms its somber centerpiece: set in the Congo of the 1890s, this haunting and widely influential Modernist masterpiece explores the limits of human experience as well as the nightmarish realities and consequences of imperialism...read more

Four stories center on themes of isolation, inadequate communication, beleaguered solidarity, and ordeals that test character

Four stories center on themes of isolation, inadequate communication, beleaguered solidarity, and ordeals that test character (view table of contents)

Product Description: For those whose hearts belong to the sea, this collection of 18 tales by the best-loved writers of seafaring stories will allow readers to vicariously experience the heroic feats of captains and seamen, sea voyages, discovery, and warfare...read more

Features three works by the American author, including the classic story of a steamship captain pitted against a storm that taxes his courage and his ship beyond what he believed possible.

This volume contains "Typhoon," "The Secret Sharer," "Falk," and "Amy Foster." "Typhoon", a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while "The Secret Sharer" excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's abiding preoccupation with the theme of solidarity, challenged from without by the elements and from within by human doubts and fears. Conrad's experiences as a captain of the ship Otago in 1888 provided material for both "The Secret Sharer" and "Falk". "Amy Foster", written in 1901, is bleak and stark in its depiction of human isolation and incomprehension. In a range of tones extending from the sombre to the radiant, Conrad's central preoccupations are displayed at their best, strangest, and most plangent in this selection of stories.

Product Description: Here is the ultimate collection of stories about the sea for sailors old and young, experienced seamen and armchair admirals. For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons—for battle, for wealth, for excitement, and for escape...read more

Product Description: To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship...read more

London 1948. 8vo., 154pp., illustrations, index, hardcover. Good, light wear, no DJ.

Product Description: In each of these three exciting tales, Joseph Conrad's celebrated prose style, rich in the cadences of the sea, draws readers into a story that probes deeply, often suspensefully, into the mysteries of the human character. Here are adventures of the sea and of the soul, related by a novelist considered one of the greatest writers in the language...read more

A rousing collection of the world's best sailing stories spans the globe, and world history, for great tales of the sea, from Homer's Odyssey to the America's Cup and including works by E. B. White, Herman Melville, Jack London, Cleveland Amory, Nevil Shute, and other acclaimed writers. (view table of contents)

A collection of timeless sailing stories includes contributions from Daniel Defoe, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, William Bligh, Ernest Shackleton, and many others. Original.

An anthology of high-seas adventures includes such tales as Patrick O'Brian's description of British Navy life, C.S. Forrester's showdown between Hornblower and vicious pirates, and Frederick Maryatt's tale of a lowly British seaman. Original.

Product Description: Malevolent, mysterious, vast, the ocean has always sparked our fascination and sense of adventure, giving rise to a remarkable vein of narrative deftly mined here by editor Tony Tanner. In the twenty-seven tales of The Oxford Book of the Sea, masters of the art tell of men on ships, grappling with themselves, their fellow sailors, and the trials of the sea: from hurricane winds to the frustrating calm, from swirling currents to rampaging whales...read more

A collection of stories on Para Handy, who originally appeared in the 'Glasgow Evening News' nearly a hundred years ago. The mariner and his crew recall the age of puffers sailing between West Highland ports and Glasgow and notes are included to contextualize each story.

An action-packed anthology of twenty-one tales of adventure and naval engagement on the high seas includes the exploits of C. S. Forrester's Horation Hornblower and Richard Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater, as well as other stories by Derek Wilson, Peter Tremayne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and other celebrated authors. Original. (view table of contents)

A collection of seafaring stories from the age of frigates, cruisers, sloops and cannon fire. The authors include Richard Woodman, Keith Teylor, Derek Wilson, Amy Myers, Peter T. Garratt, Peter Tremayne and C.S. Forester.