Great American Shipwreck Stories

Great American Shipwreck Stories is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of a ship's encounter with a great whale or an overwhelming monsoon or a disastrous passage through the Straits of Magellan leading to a wreck and a crew's harrowing plight for survival on the open seas or on a desert island. Capturing all the elements of ancient and powerful tragedy this book is chockful of thrilling tales of survival - as well as a frightful examination of man's darkest impulses - which allow the reader a gruesome glimpse behind the veil of honor and bravery that history often ascribes to such men of the sea. <BR /><BR />These are all stories that have endured the test of time and have attracted discerning readers for generations. <BR /><BR />Includes stories by George Byron Merrick Owen Chase Henry Cabot Lodge Theodore Roosevelt Riley Brown J. S. Ogilvie Horace Holden and many others.