Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway

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Sea fever : the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway

Title remainder

the true adventures that inspired our greatest maritime authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway

Statement of responsibility

Sam Jefferson

Creator

• Jefferson, Sam

Subject

• Fiction -- History and criticism
• Literature
• Sea in literature
• Sea stories -- History and criticism
• Seafaring life in literature

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

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 809.3'932162
• 809.3932162

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

specialized