Maritime Literature

January–March 2009

• The Odyssey, a great beginning
• The pirates in A High Wind in Jamaica
• Roger Williams and his observations
• “Benito Cereno” and my first encounter with Captain Amasa Delano
• The Essex, with its multiple accounts
• More from Captain Delano
• The Old Man and the Sea revisited
• Nathaniel Hawthorne also revisited
• An unusual Voyage Along the Horizon
• The albatross and other animals at sea
• More historical accounts, this time of The Bounty
• The voyage of Richard Henry Dana, and a second look
• Yet another American writer revisited; this time, Stephen Crane
• My love of Richard Hughes remains boundless
• A short and a long post on “Maelström”
• Taking the short way out with Conrad
• The irresistible Captain Slocum