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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction: Seafaring Odysseus -- Chapter 1: The Mariner's Craft -- Prudence (Monday, June 11, 1770, 6 PM) -- Sea Legs (Night of June 11, 1770) -- Protocol (Night of June 11-Morning of June 12, 1770) -- Remarkable Occurrences (Noon, June 12, 1770) -- Endeavor (Evening of June 11-Afternoon of June 12, 1770) -- Resolution (Tuesday, June 12, 1770, 9 PM) -- Jury-rigging (Tuesday, June 12, 1770, 10:20 PM-Night of Wednesday, June 13, 1770) Collectivity (Wednesday, June 13, 1770) -- Compleat Knowledge (Friday, June 29, 1770) -- Plain Style (Tuesday, August 7, 1770) -- Providence (Thursday, August 16, 1770) -- The Edge (Thursday, August 16, 1770) -- Reckoning (Thursday, August 23, 1770) -- Practical Reason (Seventh Century BC-AD 2010) -- Chapter 2: Remarkable Occurrences at Sea and in the Novel -- Crusoe of York, Mariner -- How to Succeed in Speculation: Sailor and Merchant -- From Remarkable Occurrence into Adventure Novel -- Performability -- Performing Description: Dampier's Sea Lions and Crusoe's Goats Imaginary Solutions to Real Problems -- The Cunning Reader -- Cunning Reading: Diverting and Useful -- The Maritime Picaresque: Profiles in Craft -- Craft's Collective: Captain Bob, Quaker William, the Ingenious Cutler, and Many Others -- From Captain to Designer: Robert Boyle -- Craft or Feminine Wiles: Mrs. Villars -- Craft without Performance: Robert Lade -- Warrior Craft: Robert Chevalier, Pirate Captain -- Boldness to Hell: Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard -- The Craft of Freedom: Captain Misson -- Heroines of Craft: Anne Bonny and Mary Read -- Craft and Virtue: Roderick Random Chapter 3: Sea Adventure Fiction, 1748-1824? -- Some Conjectures -- Interlude: The Sublimation of the Sea -- Transgressing the Boundaries -- Satan on the Beach -- Things Unattempted Yet in Prose or Rhyme: Milton the Jury-rigger -- The Low Sublime of Piracy -- The Pleasure of an Unknown Navigation -- The Sublime Ocean: What Strikes the Eye -- Dark-heaving, Boundless, Endless, and Sublime -- A Storm Would Have Been Some Consolation -- The Mariner as Uncouth Orpheus: Falconer's Shipwreck -- Turner Was in This Storm -- Chapter 4: Sea Fiction in the Nineteenth Century: Patriots, Pirates, and Supermen The Periphery Writes Back -- A Different Course -- Performance of His Duty -- The Only Class of Men Who Nowadays See Anything Like Stirring Adventure -- The Capacity for Work . . . in Moments of Doubt and Danger -- His Love of Liberty May Be Questionable -- We Do Not Like the Author's Domestic Painting So Well -- The Colonial Has Liberated Himself -- A Deep Blood-Red Field: The Price at Which I Am to Be Bought -- The Obscurity of Facts Clouded by Time -- Breathless Interest: From Performing to Gripping Description -- Nautical Novels: Mesty . . . You Are a Man
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