Sea Fever - The True Adventures That Inspired Our Greatest Maritime Authors

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway''s The Old Man and the Sea ? How did Robert Louis Stevenson''s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The Beach of Falesa and The Ebb Tide ? How did Masefield survive Cape Horn and a near-nervous breakdown to write Sea Fever ?The waters of this world have swirled through storytelling ever since the Celts spun the tale of Beowulf and Homer narrated The Odyssey . This enthralling book takes us on a tour of the most dangerous, exciting and often eccentric escapades of literature''s sailing stars, and how these true stories inspired and informed their best-loved works. Arthur Ransome, Erskine Childers, Jack London and many others are featured as we find out how extraordinary fact fed into unforgettable fiction.>

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Jefferson is an entertaining storyteller in his own right, which directs the book's scope towards a continuation of the tradition of 'spinning yarns' that he admires in his subjects. Sea History magazine (US)

Product details

• Authors: Sam Jefferson, Jefferson Sam
• Publisher: Adlard Coles
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9781472908841
• ISBN: 978-1-4729-0884-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Reiseberichte, Reiseerinnerungen (div.), Schifffahrt : Berichte, Erinnerungen