Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 – 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by…
Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) repeatedly traversed the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen observer, the man who recast himself as Mark Twain was…
A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination…
