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LITERATURE OF THE SEA The foregoing quotation from A. C. Spectorsky ' s The Book of the Sea defines the inspiration which has motivated man to author that huge, wonderful collection of writings which we have termed the Literature of the Sea. What a great treasure the many authors who wrote about the sea and ships and the men who called both home have left us. Every man has at some time in his life been exposed to the wondrous world of the sea through some sea story, be it a childhood classic like Treasure Island and Twenty- Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or a deep philosophical novel like Moby Dick. Through the medium of literature, the sea with all its countless wonders, its forbidden mysteries, its relentless fury, and its majestic beauty has become a part of even, ' man ' s experience.
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No natural phenomenon has inspired so much fine writing as the sea. It has gripped man ' s creative imagination, has aroused in him wonder and curiosity, fear, awe, exaltation; and has called forth profound and beautiful prose and poetry in response to the feelings and emotions it engendered. Of all things on earth, it is the restless and changing sea alone which man has been unable to accept or reject. Adventurers and explorers have challenged the deserts and the mountains, the tropical forests and the polar ice. Ordinary men have wondered at them, and some have lived among them. But the sea has ' engaged ' man, has teased him and seduced him, has fed him, tormented him, cradled him. If Earth is Mother, then perhaps the Sea is Wife. However we think of the sea, the fact emerges that she stirs the wellsprings of creativity which gave birth to artistic offspring sired by man ' s imagination and damned by the sea. THE
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