Oxford Book of the Sea

Name: Oxford Book of the Sea
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ISBN: 9780192801944

ISBN-10: 0192801945

ISBN-13: 9780192801944

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jonathan Raban, Jonathan Raban

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The sea has served as a source of inspiration for writers throughout the ages. Now, in The Oxford Book of the Sea, bestselling author Jonathan Raban has compiled a remarkable anthology of our changing visions of the sea, a rich treasury of writings as varied and enthralling as the ocean itself. Arranged chronologically, and spanning everything from Anglo-Saxon poetry to modern oceanography, these excerpts capture the work of poets, novelists, scientists, and explorers. We read pieces from Samuel Eliot Morison, James Boswell, Charles Dickens, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, and John Barth, among many others. And for those who love great writing, Raban not only includes passages from the great…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.76" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Note on the selection


Introduction


from 'The Seafarer'


Parallel translation by Kevin Crossley-Holland


from The Faerie Queene


Edward Hay's account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland from Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation


from Psalm 107


from Homer's Odysseys


from Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes


'The Storme'


'The Calme'


from 'Lycidas'


from The Book of Common Prayer


from Annus Mirabilis


'The Sea-goddess'


'The Tempest'


from The Spectator


from Robinson Crusoe


from A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain


from Journal of a Voyage


from The Seasons


from A Voyage Around the World


from A Voyage to Lisbon


'Ode on a Storm'


from The Shipwreck


from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine


from Travels through France and Italy


from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker


from Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides


from The Mysteries of Udolpho


The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


from Biographia Literaria


'The Castaway'


'Foam's Frail Power'


from 'Lines Written among the Eugenian Hills'


from letter to Thomas Love Peacock


from Alastor


from letter to Captain Daniel Roberts


from letter to John Gisborne


from Sanditon


Verse letter to Francis Hodgson


Letter to his mother


from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


from Don Juan


'The Sea'


from 'The Old Margate Hoy'


from The Pilot


from The Voyage of the Beagle


The Beaufort Scale (c.1830)


from Two Years Before the Mast


from American Notes


from David Copperfield


from Life in Mexico


'A Descent into the Maelstrom'


from Journal


from Moby Dick


'Far Off-Shore'


from Villette


from Song of Myself


'In Cabin'd Ships at Sea'


'Patroling Barnegat'


'After the Sea-Ship'


'Exultation is the going'


from The West Indies and the Spanish Main


'The Voyage'


'The Sailor Boy'


'Crossing the Bar'


from 'The Representation of Water'


from Cape Cod


from English Traits


'The Return'


'Dover Beach'


from The Voyage Alone in the Yawl 'Rob Roy'


from Journal


from 'The English Admirals'


'The Sea and the Hills'


from 'A Matter of Fact'


from The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'


from Heart of Darkness


from Youth


from The Mirror of the Sea


from 'The Open Boat'


from Idylls of the Sea


from Sailing Alone Around the World


'Sea-Fever'


'Cardigan Bay'


'Sea Superstition'


from The Riddle of the Sands


from Father and Son


from 'The Seafarer'


from The Sea and the Jungle


'Sea Lullaby'


from The Worst Journey in the World


from Jacob's Room


from Ulysses


from The Cruise of the 'Nona'


from The Arcturus Adventure


from Across Three Oceans


from The Outermost House


from N by E


from Way for a Sailor!


'A Grave'


from North-West by North


'Neither Out Far Nor In Deep'


from In Hazard


from 'The Dry Salvages'


from Shackleton's Boat Journey


'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket'


'Seascape'


from Logbook for Grace


from The Enchafed Flood


from The Sea Around Us


from The Old Man and the Sea


'Night Patrol'


from 'The Circulation of the Oceans'


from Pincher Martin


'The Atlantic'


'On Water'


'Sea Calm'


from Once is Enough


'Midnight, Lochinver'


from The Crest of the Wave: Adventures in Oceanography


from Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface


from Spring Tides


from Mostly Mischief


'Freak Waves', an appendix to J. Adlard Coles: Heavy Weather Sailing


'From the Wave'


from We, the Navigators


'To the Sea'


from Shipwreck


'The Sea and the Wind that Blows'


'North Sea off Carnoustie'


'The Sea is History'


from Sabbatical


'The Waves'


'Sea Knell'


'Bath after Sailing'


from Rabbit at Rest


Acknowledgements


Index