Classic Sea Stories

by Barry Unsworth (Introduction)

A nautical tour-de-force featuring tales by some of the outstanding writers of the genre, including:

Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
Daniel Defoe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Edage Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Francois Rabelais
Jules Verne
Dante Alighieri
Giovanni Boccaccio
Christopher Columbus
Sir Walter Raleigh

616 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Barry Unsworth was an English writer known for his historical fiction. He published 17 novels, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an Ex-navy man I was surprised to find that not a one of these began with, "This is no shit."