Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English Prose
Autor Geoffrey Callenderen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2013
Preț: 307.46 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 461
Preț estimativ în valută:
58.84€ • 62.08$ • 49.04£
58.84€ • 62.08$ • 49.04£
Carte tipărită la comandă
Livrare economică 02-16 ianuarie 25
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781107651586
ISBN-10: 1107651581
Pagini: 434
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1107651581
Pagini: 434
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
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
Descriere
This 1915 collection presents a series of pieces written by various 'masters of English prose' relating to maritime themes.