Designed to appeal to the book lover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth
printed on high quality paper and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. For centuries writers have been
inspired by the sea pitting man against nature in stories and novels. The allure of the sea is
mighty and here is a collection of classic adventure stories from writers such as Daniel Defoe
Joseph Conrad and C. S. Forester whose protagonists must pit their wits against fierce oceans
terrifying storms and creatures of the deep. A young Hornblower is tested in a rare short
story by C. S. Forester a ship's captain is gripped by a fatal desire to stay on course in
'Make Westing' by Jack London and terrifying sea monsters rear their heads in Rudyard Kipling's
' A Matter of Fact'. An elderly captain saves the day in 'The Captain's Arm' and 'The Open
Boat' by Stephen Crane is an account of a nail-biting shipwreck. Many of the writers chosen
here are experienced sailors and seafarers themselves bringing authenticity and realism to
their own gripping tales.
