The Norton Book of the Sea Author:John O. Coote, Editor Introduction by Hammond Innes. From the dust jacket: "Here is a wondrous collection of maritime literature - selected, arranged, and commended on so that it becomes an intimate history of man's relationship with the sea. The selections range from history from St. Paul's account of his shipwreck to George Malcolm Thompson's celebrated narrative o... more »f Sir Francis Drake's marauding voyages to a story by a contemporary ocean racing captain about his crew and a mid-Atlantic storm. There are stories of the admirals: Drake, Nelson, Beatty, Mountbatten, ; gales, shipwrecks, rescues and survival; explorations to far horizons; navigating by the stars; fishing, trading, and smuggling; and war at sea: submarine warfare as well as eyewitness accounts of surface battles from the Armanda to World War II. PM320 ; 406 pages« less