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Sea Fever: The True Adventures That Inspired Our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Sea Fever The True Adventures That Inspired Our Greatest Maritime Authors from Conrad to Masefield Melville and Hemingway
Author: Sam Jefferson
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 bre...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781472908841
ISBN-10: 1472908848
Publication Date: 2/11/2016
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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