Sea Fever. The True Adventures That Inspired Our Greatest Maritime Authors, From Conrad To Masefield, Melville And Hemingway

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Adlard Coles
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 330 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea How did Robert Louis Stevensons 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 literatures 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.

ISBN: 9781472908810