The Tragic History of the Sea Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic,9780792259084

The Tragic History of the Sea Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic

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ISBN13: 9780792259084
ISBN10: 0792259084
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-08-15
Publisher(s): National Geographic
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Summary

Is there any tale more thrilling than a shipwreck? Disaster at sea is an ever-present peril, inspiring ancient legends, great works of fiction, and countless yarns of deadly typhoons, vessels consumed by fire, and desperate castaways alone on an empty ocean. Before Homer composedThe Odyssey,sailors were already telling their terrifying stories, and Anthony Brandt has culled only the very best for this essential and engrossing chronicle of shipwrecks through the ages. Brandt's selections range from Icelandic sagas to Mark Twain toTitanicand beyond.The Tragic History of the Seadraws from tales around the globe: the doomedMedusa,whose survivors were abandoned to their fate, to live on only in a famous painting in the Louvre; the infamous Essex and her fatal cruise which inspired Melville's Moby Dick; or the harrowing wreck of theWager,which left kinsman to poet Lord Byron, starving on Patagonia's bleak shores. A riveting anthology of high adventure and astonishing survival against all odds, this storm-tossed voyage through history's gales and across unforgiving seas represents the best of a storytelling tradition that goes back centuries. Each extraordinary tale is linked to the next by Brandt's expert annotations and commentary, which sets them in context, provides a wealth of maritime and literary background and places this volume of shipwreck tales in a class by itself.

Author Biography

Anthony Brandt is an expert in the history of travel and adventure and is the book review editor for Adventure magazine. He has edited more than 20 books for National Geographic including the The Journals of Lewis and Clark and is a contributor to GQ, Esquire, the New York Times Sunday Magazine and other publications.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Anthony Brandt xiii
Chapter 1 The Shipwreck of Apostle Paul 1(4)
From "The Acts of the Apostles," The New Testament, Chapter 27 CA 60 C.E.
Chapter 2 New World Tempests 5(6)
From History of the Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by Ferdinand Columbus, CA 1502
Chapter 3 The Story of Pedro Serrano 11(5)
From Royal Commentaries of the Incas by Garcilaso de la Vega, CA 1550's
Chapter 4 The Shipwreck of a Portuguese Vessel 16(8)
From The Mariner's Chronicle by Bernardo Gomes de Brito, 1552-1553
Chapter 5 The Wreck of the Delight 24(5)
From A Relation of Richard Clarke of Weymouth, Master of the Ship Called The Delight, Going for the Discovery of Norembega, with Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 1583 [from Richard Hakluyt's Principal! Navigations, 1589]
Chapter 6 The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish 29(14)
From The Last Voyage of the Worshipful M. Thomas Cavendish Esquire, Intended for the South Sea, the Phillipines, and the Coast of China, with 3 Tall Ships, and Two Barks by M. John Jane, 1591
Chapter 7 The Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates 43(8)
From A True Reportoy of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight by William Strachey, 1609
Chapter 8 A Most Dangerous Voyage 51(8)
From A Most Dangerous Voyage by Captain John Monck, 1619
Chapter 9 Letter of James Pierpont 59(4)
From Magnalia Christi Americana by Cotton Mather, 1647
Chapter 10 God's Protecting Providence 63(13)
From God's Protecting Providence,...Evidenced in the Remarkable Deliverance of Divers Persons from the Devouring Waves of the Sea...and Also from the More Cruelly Devouring Jaws of the Inhumane Cannibals of Florida by Jonathan Dickinson, 1696-1697
Chapter 11 The Loss of the Nottingham Galley 76(11)
From "The Preservation of John Dean" by John Dean, 1710
Chapter 12 Alexander Selkirk: Castaway 87(12)
Various Sources, CA 1712
Chapter 13 The Wreck of the Wager 99(23)
From The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron by John Byron, 1740
Chapter 14 The Ordeal of the Peggy 122(5)
From An Extraordinary Famine in the American Ship Peggy, 1765
Chapter 15 The Loss of the Halsewell 127(10)
From The Loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman, 1786
Chapter 16 Loss of the Lady Hobart 137(10)
From Perils of the Sea, 1803
Chapter 17 The Loss of the Polly 147(5)
From R. Thomas, ed., Interesting and authentic narratives of the most remarkable shipwrecks, fires, famines, calamites, presidential delicrances, and disasters in the seas in most parts of the world, 1811
Chapter 18 The Treachery 152(19)
From A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard by Charles H. Barnard, 1813
Chapter 19 The Raft of the Medusa 171(34)
From Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal J.—B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard, 1816
Chapter 20 The Loss of the Essex 205(11)
From Captain Pollard's Narrative, 1820
Chapter 21 The Loss of the Kent 216(26)
From Perils of the Sea, 1825
Chapter 22 The Sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders 242(9)
From Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders, 1826
Chapter 23 Narrative of a Shipwreck,-Captivity & Sufferings 251(16)
From Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity & Sufferings of Horace Holden & Benj. H. Nute by Horace Holden, 1832
Chapter 24 The Shipwreck 267(10)
From Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau, 1855
Chapter 25 The Runaways 277(10)
From Arctic Researches, and Lift Among the Esquimaux by Charles Francis Hall, 1865
Chapter 26 The Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea 287(17)
From The Sacramento Daily Union by Mark Twain, July 19, 1866
Chapter 27 A Report of Events on the Coast of Peru 304(6)
From Reports of the USS Powhatan and USSWateree Concerning the Earthquake and Tidal Wave of 13 August 1868 at Arica, Peru U.S. Navy, 1868
Chapter 28 Story of a Hoodoo Ship, 310(3)
From The New York Times, June 24, 1900
Chapter 29 Unsinkable 313
From Titanic Disaster: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate April 19—May 25, 1912

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