GREAT STORIES OF THE SEA AND SHIPS

New York: Galahad Books, 1992. Book. Illus. by Peter Hurd;. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. 431 pp. Quarter-bound in black on charcoal gray boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by N. C. Wyeth. Illustrated with 18 drawings by Peter Hurd. This collection contains: Foreword by N. C. Wyeth; The Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson; The Fight in the Foretop by James Boyd; Collision at Sea by Frank T. Bullen; The Voyage of 1492 by Christopher Columbus; The Wreck of the Royal Caroline by James Fenimore Cooper; Death at Sea; and North Wester by Richard Henry Dana; Three Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Dante's Escape from the Chateau D'If by Alexander (Alexandre) Dumas; The Specksioneer by Elizabeth Gaskell; How Captain John Ribault Planted a Colony in Florida by Richard Hakluyt; The Raft of Odysseus by Homer; The Devil Fish; and An Imprisoned Thunderstorm by Victor Hugo; The Phantom Island by Washington Irving; The Iron Clads by Mary Johnston; How Amyas Threw His Sword Into the Sea by Charles Kingsley; Fog by Jack London; Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti; Mr Midshipman Easy Makes a Bet by Captain Marryat; The Flight of the Smugglers by John Masefield; The Great White Whale; and Rounding Cape Horn by Herman Melville; The Mutiny on the Bounty by Guy Murchie; A Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Richard Grenville and the Spanish Armada by Sir Walter Raleigh; Attacked by Pirates by Charles Reade; The Derelict Neptune by Morgan Robertson; The Cruise of the Torch by Michael Scott; Trafalgar by Robert Southey; The Man with the Belt of Gold by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Rescue of a Castaway; and An Unknown Species of Whale by Jules Verne; and The Ballad of Clampherdown by Rudyard Kipling..