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Drawing on literary masterworks and riveting firsthand narratives, travel writing and natural science, memoir and journalism, American Sea Writing captures the full sweep of America's maritime experience. From voyagers of the 17th century to ecological dilemmas of the 20th, from Cotton Mather and Washington Irving to Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez, this unique collection casts our national story in a new and revealing light. The nearly 70 writers gathered here include many of our greatest: Cooper inventing the sea novel; Emerson on an Atlantic crossing; Poe recasting the Flying Dutchman legend; Whitman, Melville, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughs, Ernest Hemingway, all mining their sea experiences--hunting whales or survivng at sea in an open boat or mastering the art of surfing.
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