The Open Boat: And Other Tales of Adventure
It was a thin little oar and it seemed often ready to snap. The correspondent, pulling at the other oar, watched the waves and wondered why he was there. - Taken from "The Open Boat" written by Stephen Crane
"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane.
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Four men are in a lifeboat together after the sinking of the ship Commodore. They are lost at sea, and must somehow survive and row to shore. They finally spot land and try to head toward it, but the rolling waves are too strong.
The Open Boat: Across the Pacific
Contains a collection of poems dealing with the immigrant experience by poets with ties to the Asian Pacific, and short biographies of each poet
The story is told from the point of view of an anonymous correspondent, with Crane as the implied author, the action closely resembles the author's experiences after the shipwreck.
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"The Open Boat" begins with four men--the captain, the oiler, the cook, and the correspondent--rowing a small dinghy boat off the coast of Florida in January following a shipwreck.
None of them knew the colour of the sky.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First published in 1897.
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A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a bucking broncho, and by the same token, a broncho is not much smaller.