Spindrift
Salt from the Ocean of English Prose
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- Author: Geoffrey Callender
- Date Published: March 2013
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Sir Geoffrey Callender (1875–1946) was a British naval historian who was the first director of the National Maritime Museum. In this collection, which was first published in 1915, Callender presents a series of pieces written by various 'masters of English prose' relating to maritime themes. The pieces are presented, as far as knowledge permits, in the order of their composition or publication, beginning with John Wycliffe's 'The story of Jonah' and finishing with James Anthony Froude's 'Drake'. Detailed notes are contained throughout the text, providing linguistic clarification and contextual information where necessary. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English prose writing and writing about the sea.
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- Date Published: March 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107651586
- length: 434 pages
- dimensions: 203 x 127 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
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Table of Contents
Preface: John Wycliffe: The story of Jonah
Geoffrey Chaucer: The astrolabe
Sir Thomas Malory: King Arthur's dream
The passing of Arthur
Cardinal Wolsey: A letter to the Bishop of Worcester
The Book of Common Prayer: God's mercy to mariners
A prayer
Sir Thomas More and Ralph Robinson: Hythloday home from Utopia
John Lyly: Boxing the compass
Richard Hakluyt: Preface to the Principal Navigations
The corposant
Martin Frobisher's second voyage
Valiant enterprise of the tall ship Primrose
A water famine
'Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona'
The taking of the Madre de Dios
Sir Walter Raleigh: The last fight of the Revenge
Francis Bacon: The influence of sea power
A paradox
Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The channel passage in 1609
William Shakespeare: The Tempest
Alongshore
Authorized Version of the Bible: Man's insignificance
The shipwreck of St Paul
Samuel Purchas: The services of the sea
Sir Thomas Overbury: Character of the sailor
Sir William Monson: The choice of captains
Captain John Smith: The pathway to experience
Thomas Fuller: The good sea captain
Samuel Pepys: The restoration of Charles II
John Evelyn: The galleys!
The death of Lord Sandwich
Samuel Pepys
Lord Clarendon: Scenes from the great civil war
William Wycherley: The man of action
William Congreve: An ill-sorted couple
Charles Shadwell: Brutal and finical
Joseph Addison: Of monuments and in particular of Sir Clowdisley Shovel's
The mirror of the infinite
Sir Richard Steele: Inkle and Yarico
Alexander Selkirk
Daniel Defoe: Crusoe carries his salvage ashore on a raft
Crusoe builds a boat
Crusoe visits a wreck
Fighting under the Jolly Roger
Jonathon Swift: Gulliver captures the Blefuscudian navy
A great gale described
Gulliver's boat at Brobdingnag
Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random is seized by the press-gang
The surgeon's mates of the Thunder, off duty and on
Brutality of Captain Oakum
The cockpit in time of battle
A yarn from Commodore Trunnion
Commodore Trunnion's wedding-day
The death of Commodore Trunnion
Henry Fielding: Leaves from the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
James Macpherson: A song of Ossian
Laurence Sterne: Mal de mer
Oliver Goldsmith: Officers of 'The Fleet'
Edmund Burke: New England fishers
Horace Walpole: The crisis
Edward Gibbon: The navy of Byzantium
Greek or maritime fire
Over land
Robert Southey: The death of Nelson
Sir Walter Scott: Dirk Hatteraick, - smuggler
Cast up by the sea
The making of a pirate
Charles Lamb: The old Margate Hoy
Washington Irving: The discovery of America
Captain Marryat: A flogging round the fleet
Captain Capperbar
The hardships of impressment
Weathering the Cape
and a chat with the bo's'n
Passing for Lieutenant
Equality, and the rights of man
Michael Scott: A sea-piece. Blue and gold
A nocturne. Silver and black
Wounded
Commodore Sir Oliver Oakplank and Lieutenant David Sprawl
Thomas Carlyle: Naval occasions
The Vengeur at death grips
Sound and smoke at Santa Cruz
Edgar Allan Poe: A sail! A sail!
Leigh Hunt: Seamen on shore
Gangway!
Richard Henry Dana: 'Man overboard!'
A savage and merciless tyrant
The sailorman and his memory
George Borrow: In the bay of Biscay
Alexander William Kinglake: Constantinople
William H. Prescott: Pioneers in the Pacific
Lord Macaulay: State of the navy under Charles II
Charles Dickens: The Pegottys at home
Storm and shipwreck
John Ruskin: A pair of seascapes
Nathaniel Hawthorne: How Jason built the Argo and set sail for Colchis
Walter Savage Landor: An imaginary conversation
John Lothrop Motley: How they brought the sea to Leyden
Charles Kingsley: Last of the Madre Dolorosa
'Vengeance is mine' saith the Lord
Thomas de Quincey: The Spanish military nun
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The voyage to England
William Makepeace Thackeray: The fighting Téméraire
James Russell Lowell: Mr X, Chief Mate
James Anth
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