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	Note on the selection	xvii
	Introduction	1
35
	from 'The Seafarer'
	Parallel translation by Kevin Crossley-Holland
39
	from The Faerie Queene
46
	Edward Hay's account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland from Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation
55
	from Psalm 107
56
	from Homer's Odysseys
61
	from Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes
71
	'The Storme'
	'The Calme'
75
	from 'Lycidas'
	from The Book of Common Prayer	75
76
	from Annus Mirabilis
78
	'The Sea-goddess'
79
	'The Tempest'
80
	from The Spectator
84
	from Robinson Crusoe
	from A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
92
	from Journal of a Voyage
108
	from The Seasons
109
	from A Voyage Around the World
113
	from A Voyage to Lisbon
117
	'Ode on a Storm'
119
	from The Shipwreck
	from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine
131
	from Travels through France and Italy
	from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
136
	from Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
140
	from The Mysteries of Udolpho
145
	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
	from Biographia Literaria
165
	'The Castaway'
168
	'Foam's Frail Power'
169
	from 'Lines Written among the Eugenian Hills'
	from letter to Thomas Love Peacock
	from Alastor
	from letter to Captain Daniel Roberts
	from letter to John Gisborne
174
	from Sanditon
175
	Verse letter to Francis Hodgson
	Letter to his mother
	from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
	from Don Juan
183
	'The Sea'
184
	from 'The Old Margate Hoy'
187
	from The Pilot
195
	from The Voyage of the Beagle
197
	The Beaufort Scale (c.1830)
200
	from Two Years Before the Mast
207
	from American Notes
	from David Copperfield
219
	from Life in Mexico
227
	'A Descent into the Maelstrom'
242
	from Journal
	from Moby Dick
	'Far Off-Shore'
252
	from Villette
254
	from Song of Myself
	'In Cabin'd Ships at Sea'
	'Patroling Barnegat'
	'After the Sea-Ship'
256
	'Exultation is the going'
257
	from The West Indies and the Spanish Main
260
	'The Voyage'
	'The Sailor Boy'
	'Crossing the Bar'
265
	from 'The Representation of Water'
267
	from Cape Cod
271
	from English Traits
273
	'The Return'
275
	'Dover Beach'
276
	from The Voyage Alone in the Yawl 'Rob Roy'
282
	from Journal
284
	from 'The English Admirals'
285
	'The Sea and the Hills'
	from 'A Matter of Fact'
293
	from The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
	from Heart of Darkness
	from Youth
	from The Mirror of the Sea
307
	from 'The Open Boat'
314
	from Idylls of the Sea
318
	from Sailing Alone Around the World
326
	'Sea-Fever'
	'Cardigan Bay'
	'Sea Superstition'
331
	from The Riddle of the Sands
338
	from Father and Son
340
	from 'The Seafarer'
343
	from The Sea and the Jungle
348
	'Sea Lullaby'
349
	from The Worst Journey in the World
360
	from Jacob's Room
365
	from Ulysses
366
	from The Cruise of the 'Nona'
369
	from The Arcturus Adventure
378
	from Across Three Oceans
382
	from The Outermost House
389
	from N by E
396
	from Way for a Sailor!
399
	'A Grave'
400
	from North-West by North
402
	'Neither Out Far Nor In Deep'
403
	from In Hazard
408
	from 'The Dry Salvages'
409
	from Shackleton's Boat Journey
418
	'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket'
422
	'Seascape'
423
	from Logbook for Grace
427
	from The Enchafed Flood
428
	from The Sea Around Us
435
	from The Old Man and the Sea
441
	'Night Patrol'
443
	from 'The Circulation of the Oceans'
447
	from Pincher Martin
453
	'The Atlantic'
	'On Water'
455
	'Sea Calm'
455
	from Once is Enough
461
	'Midnight, Lochinver'
462
	from The Crest of the Wave: Adventures in Oceanography
	from Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface
472
	from Spring Tides
475
	from Mostly Mischief
482
	'Freak Waves', an appendix to J. Adlard Coles: Heavy Weather Sailing
487
	'From the Wave'
488
	from We, the Navigators
493
	'To the Sea'
494
	from Shipwreck
496
	'The Sea and the Wind that Blows'
499
	'North Sea off Carnoustie'
500
	'The Sea is History'
503
	from Sabbatical
508
	'The Waves'
509
	'Sea Knell'
	'Bath after Sailing'
	from Rabbit at Rest
	Acknowledgements	519
	Index	523