The Resource Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway, Sam Jefferson
Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway, Sam Jefferson
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- Summary
- This volume explores the dangerous, exciting, and often eccentric escapades of literature's sailing stars, and how these true stories inspired and informed their best-loved works. We find out how: a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspired one of the key scenes in Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'; Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the South Seas in his schooner Casco encountered areas where cannibalism was still rife, and these wild and remote paradises tinged with danger went on to feature in 'Treasure Island'; the hardship that Melville endured aboard whaling ships (he deserted one and took part in a mutiny on another, which landed him in a Tahitian jail) inspired 'Moby Dick'; and much more
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
- Title
- Sea fever
- Title remainder
- the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
- Statement of responsibility
- Sam Jefferson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This volume explores the dangerous, exciting, and often eccentric escapades of literature's sailing stars, and how these true stories inspired and informed their best-loved works. We find out how: a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspired one of the key scenes in Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'; Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the South Seas in his schooner Casco encountered areas where cannibalism was still rife, and these wild and remote paradises tinged with danger went on to feature in 'Treasure Island'; the hardship that Melville endured aboard whaling ships (he deserted one and took part in a mutiny on another, which landed him in a Tahitian jail) inspired 'Moby Dick'; and much more
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- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jefferson, Sam
- Dewey number
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- 809.3'932162
- 809.3932162
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Sea in literature
- Seafaring life in literature
- Fiction
- Sea stories
- Literature
- Target audience
- specialized
- Label
- Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway, Sam Jefferson
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- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781472908841
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9781472908841
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway, Sam Jefferson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781472908841
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9781472908841
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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