Men at Sea is an opus of eight spectacularly drawn dark, poetic stories freely adapted by Riff Reb’s. This collection offers: “A Smile of Fortune, ” from Joseph Conrad “The Sea Horses” and “The Shamraken Homeward Bound, ” from William Hope Hodgson “The Galley Slaves” and “The Far South, ” from Pierre Mac Orlan “A Descent into the Maelstrom, ” from Edgar Allan Poe “The Three Customs Officers, ” from Marcel Schwob “The Shipwreck, ” from Robert Louis Stevenson These eight tales, themselves interspersed by seven double-page spreads dedicated to extracts from illustrated classics, deliver a rich, poetic, and masterfully crafted work of life and death on the sea.