A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred
years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the
deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless
waters.
Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen
Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London mix with marvelously
imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith, and J. G.
Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim
who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury's "The
Fog Horn" summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths;
John Updike's vacationing lovers retrace the route of Homer's Odyssey
on a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic "A Descent into the
Maelstrom" to Ernest Hemingway's chilling "After the Storm" to Mark
Helprin's heartbreaking "Sail Shining in White," the stories here are as
wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.