Sea Fever

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway''s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson''s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The Beach of Falesa and The Ebb Tide? How did Masefield survive Cape Horn and a near-nervous breakdown to write Sea Fever?

The waters of this world ...