Great Sea Stories of All Nations
1930, First Edition. London ; Bombay ; Sydney : George G. Harrap & Co. Good copy in contemporary quarter black leather over blue cloth boards. Corners slightly bumped; spine sun-toned with raised bands and a gilt-tooled black leather label. Hinges cracked but remaining secure; endpapers lightly foxed, with the interior remaining bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Notes; No. 48 from a limited edition of 500 copies. Provenance: Bookplate of F. P. Marshall. Item #468887
Physical description; 3 preliminary leaves, vii-xxiv pages, 1 leaf, 1108 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; List of books uniform with this title on preliminary leaf. Includes index of authors. Subjects; Sea stories – Anthology. Voyages and travels – Literary collections. Seafaring life – Literary collections. Ocean – Literary collections. Short stories. Epic poetry. World literature. 20th century. 19th century. 18th century. 17th century. 16th century. 15th century. Classical antiquity. Medieval literature.
Contents; Ancient Greece: How Odysseus made himself a raft and how Poseidon, Shaker of the Earth, overwhelmed him with a storm / Homer – How the Greeks defeated the Persians off the isle of Salamis / Aeschylus – How the ship Argo passed between the clashing rocks / Apollonius Rhodius – How Lucian of Samothrace voyaged to the moon and how he was afterward swallowed by a whale / Lucian of Samothrace – Might of the whale / Oppian – Dolphin – Lord of the fishes / Oppian.
Ancient Rome: How Rome built her first ships and how C. Duilius Nepos defeated the Carthaginians therewith / Polybius – How Aeolus, King of the winds, sent forth a storm against Aeneas / Virgil – How Julius Caesar, taking fortune for his comrade, put out into the tumult of the sea / Lucan – How Mark Antony, following after Cleopatra, fled from the battle Actium / Plutarch.
Biblical literature: Gathering together of the waters / Genesis – Waters of the flood / Genesis – Jonah and the whale / Jonah – Shipwreck of St. Paul / The Acts of the Apostles.
Arabia: First voyage of Es-Sindibad of the sea / Anonymous – Story of 'Abd-Allah of the land and 'Abd-Allah of the sea / Anonymous.
Persia: Sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous – How Xerxes bridged the Hellespont / Herodotus.
Celtic literature: Voyage of Maildun / Anonymous – Voyage of Saynt Brandon / Anonymous.
Great Britain: How Scyld set forth upon his last voyage / Beowulf – How Beowulf, for the space of five nights, abode in the sea / Beowulf – How Richard Coeur de Lion, sailing to the Holy Land, captured a Saracen ship / Geoffrey de Vinsauf – Battle of Espagnols-sur-Mer / Sir John Froissart – How Sir Lancelot entered into the ship where Sir Percivale's sister lay dead: and how he met with Sir Galahad his son / Sir Thomas Mallory – Of the great sea fight between Sir Andrew Wood, Knight, and Captain Stephen Bull / Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie – World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake / Richard Hakluyt – Death of Sir Humphrey Gilbert / Edward Haie – Last fight of the Revenge / Sir Walter Raleigh – A true reportory of the wracke and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight / William Strachy – Last voyage of Henry Hudson / Abacuk Pricket – Dangerous voyage of Captain Thomas James, told by himself / Captain Thomas James – Prince Rupert's exploits at sea: The English story of the Four Days Battle: I. From historical memoirs of the life and death of that wise and valiant Prince Rupert, Prince Palatine of the Rhine. – II. From Campbell's Naval history of Great Britain / Captain Valentine Pyne – Some adventures of Crusoe / Daniel Defoe – Gulliver at Lilliput and Brobdingnag / Jonathan Swift – How Commodore Anson came to Juan Fernandes / Richard Walter – Trafalgar / Robert Southey – Mr. Midshipman Easy / Captain Frederick Marryat – Phantom ship / Captain Frederick Marryat – Whitby whalers / Elizabeth Gaskell – In the steerage / Charles Dickens – How Gerard was saved from the wreck / Charles Reade – How Amyas threw his sword into the sea / Charles Kingsley – Man with the belt of gold / Robert Louis Stevenson – Abandoning ship / Joseph Conrad – Lofty-minded mariner / Morley Roberts – In the abyss / H.G. Wells – Derelict / H.M. Tomlinson – Memory / John Masefield – Davy Jones's gift / John Masefield – T'wind'ard / Captain David Bone – Voyage of the James Caird / Sir Ernest Shackleton – How the Cutty Sark raced the Thermopylae / Basil Lubbock – Ghost ship / Richard Middleton – Sealing of Zeebrugge / Archibald Hurd – Five Wounds encounters a gale / Vere Hutchinson.
Canada: Fruits of toil / Norman Duncan.
Australia: Fourteen fathoms by Quetta Rock / Randolph Bedford.
United States: Voyage of the Mayflower / William Bradford – Phantom Island / Washington Irving – Red Rover and the Royal Caroline / J. Fenimore Cooper – Descent into the maelstrom / Edgar Allan Poe – Chesapeake and the Shannon / John Bach McMaster – Homeward bound / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. – Storm in the Pacific / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. – Moby Dick / Herman Melville – How Quintus Arrius defeated the pirates / Lew Wallace – Skipper and El Capitan / Frank R. Stockton – High-water mark / Francis Bret Harte – Devil at sea / Henry van Dyke – How the gardener's son fought the Serapis / Winston Churchill – Merrimac and the Monitor / Mary Johnston – Bound for Rio Grande / A.E. Dingle – Rounding Cape Horn / Felix Riesenberg – Yellow cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele – Way for a sailor! / Bill Adams.
France: How Pantagruel met with a great storm at sea and of what countenance Panurge and Friar John kept therein / François Rabelais – How Captain Jean Ribault came to Florida and of what befell the men he left there / René de Laudonnière – Telemachus in the Island of Cyprus / François de la Mothe-Fénelon – Shipwreck of a modest young lady / Bernardin de Saint-Pierre – How malicious Gilliatt fought the tempest / Victor Hugo – Gunner's fight with the carronade / Victor Hugo – How Dantes escaped from the Château d'If / Alexandre Dumas – Whale of unknown species / Jules Verne – Atlantis / Jules Verne – Ocean Christ / Anatole France – How St. Mael voyaged to the Island of the Penguins / Anatole France – Iceland fisherman / Pierre Loti.
Italy: Last voyage of Ulysses / Dante Alighieri – Legend of St. Mark and the fishermen of Venice / Anna Jameson – "Poetic tempest" / Francesco Petrarca – How Randolfo Ruffolo turned pirate / Giovanni Boccaccio – How Prince Gerbino fought the galley of the King of Tunis / Giovanni Boccaccio – How the Galleon of Venice won glory at the Battle of Prevesa / Jurien de la Gravière – How Il Solitario escaped from Caprera / Giuseppe Garibaldi – Ugly weather / Giovanni Verga – End / Guido Milanesi.
Spain: How Don Pero Niño captured the Moorish galley – and how the sea fought for the English / Gutierre Díaz de Gomez – First voyage taken by the Admiral Don Cristobal Colon when he discovered the Indies / Christopher Columbus – How Vasco Nunes de Balboa discovered the Pacific / Pinkerton's Voyages – How Fernan de Magalhaes sailed into the Southern Sea – and the manner of his death / Antonio Pigafetta – Captive's escape / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – Beautiful Morisca / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – Invincible Armada / James Anthony Froude – Return / James Anthony Froude – Return of the fishing boats / José María de Pereda – Trafalgar / Benito Pérez Galdós – Fishermen of Rodillero / Armando Palacio Valdés – Triton / Vicente Blasco Ibáñez – Mare Nostrum / Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
Portugal: How the page of Prince Henry the Navigator brought home the ship / Gomez Eannes de Zurara – Story of Gaspar and Miguel Corte Real / Damiao de Goes – How Ferdinand Mendez Pinto sought fortune on the sea, and of some mischances that befell him there / Ferdinand Mendez Pinto – How Vasco de Gama came to the land of Calicut / Luiz de Camões – How the São Thomé was wrecked off the Terra dos Fumos – How Alfonso Dalboquerque came to the end of his voyage / Braz Dalboquerque.
Modern Greece: Sea / Antrea Karkavitsas.
Belgium: Beggars of Zealand / Charles de Coster.
Holland: Flying Dutchman / Auguste Jal – How William the Silent opened the gates of the sea / J.L. Motley – Man who first rounded the Horn / John Callander – Dutch story of the Four Days' Battle / Life of Cornelius Van Tromp.
Germany: Whaling voyage into Spitzbergen / Frederick Martens – Baron Munchausen tells of the pranks of a whale and what happened on a voyage to the Indies / Rudolf Erich Raspe – Rider on a white horse / Theodor Storm – How the Black Galley took the Andrea Doria / Wilhelm Raabe – How the sea saved Leyden / Georg Ebers – Of the company of the privateers / J.G. Lockhart.
Poland: Lighthouse keeper of Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz.
Finland: How Väinämöinen was born of the Mother of the Sea / Kalevala – Smuggler / Aino Kallas.
Iceland: Onund Treefoot / Saga of Grettir the Strong – How Ellidi the dragon-ship, at the command of Frithiof the Bold, drove down upon the witches / Saga of Frithiof the Bold – How Earl Eric Hakonson captured the Long Serpent / Snorre Sturlason – How the Norsemen discovered America / Snorre Sturlason.
Norway: Cormorants of Andvaer / Jonas Lie – Jack of Sjoholm and the Gan-Finn / Jonas Lie – How Dammitall-with-the-limp saved the crew of the Seal / Johan Bojer.
Sweden: Outcast / Selma Lagerlöf – Ship / Verner von Heidenstam – Among the Swedish skerries / Verner von Heidenstam – How Leif Son of Rodmar fought the Sons of Atle / Gunnar Gunnarsson.
Denmark: Little mermaid / Hans Christian Andersen – Cruise of the Wild Duck / Holger Drachmann.
Japan: How the Empress Jingo sailed unto the Land called Chosen / Nihongi – How Hiko-hoho-demi-no Mikoto married the Sea-king's daughter / Nihongi.
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