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…
Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the *Nottingham Galley*
This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted in a new edition, with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from…
The Captain’s Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856–1860
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