Against the Dangerous Tides
A Classic Anthology of Shipwrecks, Mutiny, Piracy, Exploration, and Perilous Sea VoyagesBy James Fenimore Cooper, Jack London, Herman Melville, R. L. Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Walter Scott, Frederick Marryat, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Mayne Reid, Victor Hugo, R. M. Ballantyne, Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum, Randall Parrish, Charles Boardman Hawes, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Henry Barbour, Rafael Sabatini, Jeffery Farnol, Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Length569h 40m
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Against the Dangerous Tides gathers maritime adventure, imperial romance, Gothic suspense, survival narrative, and speculative voyage into a capacious study of peril at sea. Across storms, mutinies, shipwrecks, pirates, remote islands, and uncertain passages, the volume traces the ocean as both material environment and literary testing ground. Its range extends from realist nautical detail and historical romance to dreamlike terror and proto-scientific fantasy, with especially compelling episodes of castaway endurance, submarine exploration, and moral crisis aboard ship. The collection brings together writers associated with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction, American Romance, British imperial literature, French adventure writing, and the emergence of children's and juvenile adventure narratives. These authors draw upon seafaring experience, colonial expansion, technological imagination, and inherited traditions of the Robinsonade and the voyage tale. Their differing national and cultural positions complicate the sea's familiar promise of freedom, revealing it also as a space of commerce, conquest, hierarchy, violence, and encounter. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare how many literary traditions imagine danger, courage, isolation, and discovery. Against the Dangerous Tides rewards sustained reading through the dialogue among its varied styles and ideologies, making it valuable both as an introduction to maritime literature and as a broad inquiry into the cultural meanings of adventure.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length569 hrs 40 mins
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Publish dateJul 11, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World (Vol. 1-7) (Annotated)
2Jack London
3The Sea-Wolf (pt. 1)
4The Sea-Wolf (pt. 2)
5The Sea-Wolf (pt. 3)
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6The Sea-Wolf (pt. 4)
7The Sea-Wolf (pt. 5)
8The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 1)
9The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 2)
10The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 3)
11The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 4)
12The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 5)
13A Son of the Sun (pt. 1)
14A Son of the Sun (pt. 2)
15A Son of the Sun (pt. 3)
16James Fenimore Cooper
17The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
18The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 2)
19The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 3)
20The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 4)
21The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 5)
22The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 6)
23The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 7)
24The Red Rover (pt. 1)
25The Red Rover (pt. 2)
26The Red Rover (pt. 3)
27The Red Rover (pt. 4)
28The Red Rover (pt. 5)
29The Red Rover (pt. 6)
30The Red Rover (pt. 7)
31The Red Rover (pt. 8)
32Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 1)
33Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 2)
34Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 3)
35Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 4)
36Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 5)
37Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 6)
38Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 7)
39Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 8)
40Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 9)
41Miles Wallingford (pt. 1)
42Miles Wallingford (pt. 2)
43Miles Wallingford (pt. 3)
44Miles Wallingford (pt. 4)
45Miles Wallingford (pt. 5)
46Miles Wallingford (pt. 6)
47Miles Wallingford (pt. 7)
48Miles Wallingford (pt. 8)
49Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
50Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 2)
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