The Sea Voyage Narrative

Name: The Sea Voyage Narrative
ISBN: 9780203953570

doi:10.4324/9780203953570

ABSTRACT

From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.

The Sea Voyage Narrative

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |26 pages

The Nature of Voyaging

chapter |39 pages

Navigation and the Oral Tradition: The Odyssey

chapter |46 pages

Voyages of Discovery: Columbus and Cook

chapter |25 pages

The Sea Quest: Moby-Dick and The Old Man and the Sea

chapter |22 pages

Voyages of Endurance: The Nigger of the “Narcissus”

chapter |11 pages

Postscript: Voyage Narratives in the Twentieth Century