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Joseph Conrad's early life was spent at sea as an officer in the MerchantNavy, and his experiences as a young man shaped his view of life and hiswriting. The three short stories in this collection pro...

From Francis Drake's voyage on the Golden Hinde to the terror of the Piper Alpha disaster, this book recounts stories of courage, heroism and disaster on the high seas.

Malevolent, mysterious, vast, the ocean has always sparked our fascination and sense of adventure, giving rise to a remarkable vein of narrative deftly mined here by editor Tony Tanner. In the twenty-...