Poet and theologian Malcolm Guite leads readers on a journey with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose own life paralleled the experience in his famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." On this theological voyage, Guite draws out the continuing relevance of this work and the ability of poetry to communicate the truths of humanity's fallenness, our need for grace, and the possibility of redemption.
Woven around the tranquility and bliss of sailing fair winds and gentle seas, A Mariner's Tale is a love story wrapped in the question that everyone, not just sailors, asks themselves: "This is where I am. There is where I yearn to be.
Prince recalls his life at sea, including service as a privateer during the Revolution.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is not only Coleridge's best-known work, but it has also been deemed one of the greatest of all English literary ballads. Here Caldecott Award-winning...
Shushuan, the ancient, forgotten birthplace of humankind, still calls to its long-lost offspring.
This book is both an engaging compendium of nautical knowledge and a random accounting of the ways of the sea.
In 1913, a young white girl in coastal Georgia fabricates a romance between her elder sister and an African American laborer, inadvertently leading to the man's lynching. A crowd gathers...
The son of an RAF officer, Tonkin spent much of his youth travelling the world from one posting to another. He is also the author of the Richard Mariner Thriller Collection, Caesar's Spies and the Tom Musgrave Mysteries.
Devil's Advocate, Ghosts, Parents and Early Years, A Substitute for Pistol and Ball, Discoveries on Two Continents, Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters, Blubber and Mysticism, Leviathan, The Pacific, Man-Eating Epicures—The Marquesas, Mutiny ...
In a brief biographical note about Arellano, Martín Fernández de Navarrete repeats San Agustín's version but also citing ... See also Cuevas, Monje y marino, 280–84; Uncilla, Urdaneta y la conquista de Filipinas, 247– 48; and Rodríguez, ...
For those who go down to sea in ships life has always been exciting but ever dangerous.