Sea stories

A glimpse of a mysterious stranger sends a sailor on a quest across the ocean.

Ship and tugboat operations are some of the most dangerous professions.

Sarah Chartimands es una capitana en un mundo mágico.

Dieses eBook: "Kapitän Bob Singleton" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand.

Island Wars originally appeared on DownEast.

The story of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott.

In The Great Escape and Papillon, Steve McQueen embodied the tough guy on the run from captivity and injustice.

The story of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott.

As daring and defiant as Kirk Douglas journeying 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there's no stopping diver Hawk Ridley as he takes the plunge into a briny world of untold riches and danger.

It's not easy living in someone else's world, trapped in a reality over which you have no control.

As daring and defiant as Kirk Douglas journeying 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there's no stopping diver Hawk Ridley as he takes the plunge into a briny world of untold riches and danger.

Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign.

It's not easy living in someone else's world, trapped in a reality over which you have no control.

Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February 1898.

In December of 1892 a little-known event changed world history, and its influence can be seen in headlines today.

January 1889.

The Oscar-winning actor teams up with a shipwreck diving expert to spin a cinematic tale of nineteenth century pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure.

Affrontiamo la verità.

Seamos sinceros.

The stunning new feminist retelling of the real-life female pirates of the Caribbean *One of The Times' Best Historical Fiction Novels of August* 'This swashbuckling debut is great fun'THE TIMES'Wonderfully drawn characters and a terrific pace'JESS KIDD, bestselling author of THE NIGHT SHIP'A poignant depiction of true female friendship, and a really good adventure story, beautifully told'FRANCES QUINN, author of THE SMALLEST MAN 'A cracking read.

A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room.

'Deserves to be an instant classic.

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

Poems of the Sea is an anthology of classic poetry that celebrates the sea; from the power of a stormy ocean to ships and sailors and beaches strewn with shells.

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, swashbuckling novel about a young boy who is forced to go to sea and who is then caught up in high drama, daring adventure and political intrigue.

'It's like a big hug in a book' - Janice Hallett, author of The AppealSometimes the end is only the beginning .

'This strange story of love and loneliness, which explores how we all long to belong, is simply wonderful.

On a seemingly ordinary beach, a terrifying secret lies buried in the shifting sands.

Witty, lyrical, and deeply unsettling, these are tales where the sea is wide and the line between humor and horror is thin.

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj.

Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle.

Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana.

Peyrol is a Master-Gunner French Republican Navy and a pirate.

Charles Boardman Hawes was a Newbery Medal winning author.

From the Newbery Medal Winning Author Of The Dark Frigate, The Mutineers is a tale of old days at Sea and of Adventures in the Far East.

The story opens in Massachusetts in 1826.

The Dark Frigate is a Newbery Medal winner for the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and bravery on the high seas.

From the Newbery Medal Winning Author Of The Dark Frigate, The Mutineers is a tale of old days at Sea and of Adventures in the Far East.

The Dark Frigate is a Newbery Medal winner for the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and bravery on the high seas.

The story opens in Massachusetts in 1826.

On it's surface 'Sard Harker' is an adventure novel, and a very successful one at that—pulling the reader along through to its inevitable conclusion.

A legally blind Captain must continue to pilot his ship in order to provide for his family.

The story begins when a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature.

Hawthorne in his ''Wonder Book'' has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep.