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Sea Stories

By Cyrus Townsend Brady, Michael Scott, R. L. Stevenson, F. T. Bullen, Jean Rudolf Wyss, R. J. Cleveland, James Fenimore Cooper, George Cupples, R. H. Dana, Daniel Defoe, Jean Ingelow, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Charles Kingsley, W. H. G. Kingston, Pierre Loti, F. Marryat, Herman Melville, Charles Reade, Clark Russell

Sea Stories
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this collection of nautical stories edited from other books reveals some of the extraordinary difficulties faced by seamen from the days of sail. Many are so complex in the nomenclature of sail as to be unintelligible, but nevertheless the gist of the challenges come through. And some stories end so suddenly that it was almost like losing an unfinished and interesting book.

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