Gonna be my ocean nerd self
Masterpost of Free Seafaring Literature & Theory (Gothic Literature) (Romantic Literature)
Pre-1600s The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius The Odyssey by Homer The Seafarer The Libelle Of Englyshe Polycye Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini 1600s The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
1700s Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution by Maturin Murray Ballou Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Baron George Gordon Byron The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” by William Hope Hodgson The Pirate by Walter Scott Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Treasure Island & Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift
1800s The Lighthouse by R. M. Ballantyne The Pathfinder, Or The Inland Sea; The Pilot; The Two Admirals & Afloat ad Ashore by James Fenimore Cooper Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling The Sea-Wolf by Jack London The King’s Own; The Phantom Ship; Mr. Midshipman Easy & Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe The Wreck of the Grosvenor & An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
1900s The Shadow Line: A Confession & Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Great Sea Stories, ed. Joseph Lewis French (anthology)
Non-Fiction Under the Southern Cross by Maturin Murray Ballou A Voyage to the South Sea & Mutiny on the Bounty by William Bligh Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville Pincher Martin, O.D.: A Story of the Inner Life of the Royal Navy by H. Taprell Dorling
Academic Theory A topographical approach to re-reading books about Islands in digital literary spaces by J. R. Carpenter (Dis)Integrating Visions: South and Imperial/Colonial Difference in Dickens and Conrad by Luigi Cazzato The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Psychological introspection in A Maritime Journey by Justine Shu-Ting Kao “What if Icarus Hadn’t Hurtled into the Sea?” Some Remarks towards a Theory of Historical Narratology by Martin Klepper Religious Pluralism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi: A Case of Intertextual Correspondence with Swami Vivekananda’s Religious Philosophy by John Kuriakose The Rebirth of the Musical Author in Recent Fiction Written in English by Carmen Lara-Rallo Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture by Diana Maltz What Does Melville See on the Ocean? by Stipe Grgas
What is this from I must know
this post is for the girls who fall in love with the dark objects they dig up in their secret gardens and no one else.
Found out from my sister (she’s studying to be a marine biologist) that manatees are constantly a little itchy so they rub up against rocks and like it when people scratch them.
I am now ditching grad school to be a manatee scritcher, who wants my resume??
Why are all dating app options like “long-term” “short-term” “date’s” “friends” where’s my option for “wants to get married and live out a cottagecore life in the countryside”
aight its time to clock out for a bit. im tired, this has me tired. im gonna draw some dragons getting their heads stuck in things. someone give me some ideas
HOT WOMEN IN YOUR AREA WANT TO GO MUSHROOM FORAGING WITH YOU
There’s no such thing as a jellyfish.
From the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: "By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over ecosystems, and live forever. Because of the immense diversity of gelatinous plankton, jelly-like creatures can individually have each of these properties. However this way of looking at them both overstates and underestimates their true diversity. Taxonomically, they are far more varied than a handful of exemplars that are used to represent jellyfish or especially the so-called “true” jellyfish. Ecologically, they are even more adaptable than one would expect by looking only at the conspicuous bloom forming families and species that draw most of the attention. In reality, the most abundant and diverse gelatinous groups in the ocean are not the ones that anyone ever sees.“
Remember the mushrooms are always watching. The gods can’t because they have things to do but the mushrooms do not so they see everything