from A true reportory of the wrack and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight / William Strachey
from History of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford
Of the sea / Roger Williams
from Magnalia Christi Americana / Cotton Mather
The wonderful providence of God exemplified in the preservation of William Walling / William Walling
from The interesting narrative of the life / Olaudah Equiano
from Peculiar customs at Nantucket / J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur
from A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage / John Ledyard
from The journals of the Lewis & Clark expedition / William Clark
from Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean / David Porter
The voyage / Washington Irving
from A narrative of voyages and travels in the northern and southern hemispheres / Amasa Delano
from Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket / Owen Chase
from A narrative of the mutiny on board the ship Globe / William Lay and Cyrus M. Hussey
from The pilot / James Fenimore Cooper
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
from Journal of a young actress / Fanny Kemble
from A summer cruise in the Mediterranean / Nathaniel Parker Willis
from Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson
MS. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe
from Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Foot-prints on the sea-shore / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Voyage to the southern ocean / William Reynolds
from Cape Cod / Henry David Thoreau
from Mardi ; from White-jacket ; from Moby-Dick ; from Israel Potter ; The tuft of kelp / Herman Melville
from The opening of Japan / George Henry Preble
As I ebb'd with the ocean of life ; The world below the brine ; A Paumanok picture ; A winter day on the sea-beach ; Sea-shore fancies / Walt Whitman
from Remarks on board brig Thomas W. Rowland / Mary Rowland
from In the Monitor's turret / Samuel Dana Greene
from Memoirs of service afloat during the War between the States / Raphael Semmes
Pearl-hunting in the Pomotous / Charles Warren Stoddard
from Among the Isles of Shoals / Celia Thaxter
Betrayed / James H. Williams
from Chita : a memory of Last Island / Lafcadio Hearn
from About all kinds of ships / Mark Twain
The open boat / Stephen Crane
from The voyage of the transports / Richard Harding Davis
from Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum
A royal sport / Jack London
from From sail to steam / Alfred Thayer Mahan
Ile / Eugene O'Neill
from The big sea / Langston Hughes
The fish / Marianne Moore
The headlong wave / Henry Beston
Cutty Sark / Hart Crane
After the storm / Ernest Hemingway
from A descent into perpetual night / William Beebe
The captain's table / Cornelia Otis Skinner
The story of sailing / James Thurber
Havana cruise / James Agee
from Sea of Cortez / John Steinbeck
Cruising / Alvin Kernan
The death of Sergeant Alex / Edward V. Rickenbacker
The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell
At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop
The marginal world / Rachel Carson
Under Montauk Light / Peter Matthiessen
Oil / Gary Snyder
The bottom of the harbor / Joseph Mitchell
Product / George Oppen
The sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White
An August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison
A presentation of whales / Barry Lopez
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