The Open Boat And Other Stories

Stranded at Sea With Three Others - Survivor ""The Open Boat"" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent. Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his ship, the SS Commodore, sank after hitting a sandbar. He and three other men were forced to navigate their way to shore in a small boat; one of the men, an oiler named Billie Higgins, drowned after the boat overturned. A volume titled The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure was published in the United States in 1898; an edition entitled The Open Boat and Other Stories was published simultaneously in England. About the Author: American author Stephen Crane began writing early in life, and was already a published author by the age of sixteen. Get Your Copy Now. 9781365149030 136514903X 200 BOOK http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5lxGDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Stephen Crane
• | Publisher: Lulu.Com
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 198 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 136514903X
• | ISBN-13: 9781365149030