John Masefield
1) Jim Davis
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This 1911 novel about a twelve-year-old boy who falls in with a band of bloodthirsty pirates is a maritime thriller on par with Robert Louis Stevenson or Rudyard Kipling. At first Jim loves the excitement of his new lifestyle, but soon finds out he's in over his head! The author, who spent part of his youth keeping journals of his own steamship and windjammer travels, brings to life the beauty and peril of the oceans.
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Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, and other legendary figures from the age of buccaneers star in this 1906 history of the Elizabethan age of sailing ships. Ocean voyages, shipwrecks, treasure hunts, raids, sacks, sea battles and privateer customs and politics round out accounts of how ships were rigged, sailed, armed, and crewed.
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Sea-Fever' remains one of the most popular poems of the last century, and John Masefield one of the most popular poets, a superb spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships, exotic seas, of the deep-rooted life of rural England, and of the great narratives of Troy and Arthurian legend. This book includes his most popular poems and a few previously uncollected rarities. All share Masefield's love of particular lives: he draws the reader into his stories...
8) The Dream
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This stark little volume, orignally published in 1922, is Masefield's tribute to his deceased friend Charles Daniel, a former provost of Worcester College, Oxford. Based on a dream of the poet's, it consists of a 168 line poem accompanied by four striking illustrations by Masefield's eighteen-year-old daughter Judith.
9) Martin Hyde
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This 1910 novel tells the story of Martin Hyde, a spirited teenage boy who served the Duke of Monmouth in his ill-fated attempt to usurp the throne of James II in 1685. It is narrated by an older-and perhaps wiser-Hyde, reflecting on his youthful adventures.
11) Captain Margaret
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This romance of the Spanish Main, set in the 17th century, was Masefield's first novel. A contemporary review in the Observer noted: "His style is crisp, curt and vigorous. He has the Stevensonian sea-swagger, the Stevensonian sense of beauty and poetic spirit. Mr. Masefield's descriptions ring true and his characters carry conviction."
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A children’s time travel adventure of a boy, a wizard, a witch, and a magic box—a beloved Christmas novel in England for generations and adapted into a classic BBC holiday series
A “plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling”–The Washington Post
"A wintry fantasy classic." —Michael Dirda, List of 66 Favorite Books
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A “plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling”–The Washington Post
"A wintry fantasy classic." —Michael Dirda, List of 66 Favorite Books
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After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England.
14) Gallipoli
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Few accounts of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign are as famous as that of John Masefield, and justly so, for so few have captured the danger, death and heroism on the Peninsula. He saw service as a Red Cross orderly in France and sought to alleviate the plight of the soldier and volunteered his services to motor boat ambulance seeing the battles first-hand. Masefield was a poet of great power, later becoming Poet-Laureate, and set to use all of his...
15) Sard Harker
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On it's surface 'Sard Harker' is an adventure novel, and a very successful one at that, pulling the reader along through to its inevitable conclusion. But, there's much more, than just an adventure story here, including lyrical prose set against a dreamscape of both real and imagined danger.
