Nautical & Marine Fiction
Heart of Darkness (version 3)
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Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wild…
The Three Midshipmen
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William Henry Giles Kingston and W. H. G. Kingston
This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at …
Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable
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Lucy Aikin
All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer…
Drake
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Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of…
Blake of the "Rattlesnake"
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Frederick Thomas Jane
Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that f…
Atlantis
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…
A Marriage at Sea
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William Clark Russell
Herbert Barclay is desperately in love with Grace Bellassys, but a number of factors stand in the way of their happiness, the biggest of whi…
Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery
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Jules Verne
This Verne adventure is indeed a mystery and also a satire on the Crusoe genre. Our characters are larger than life, as well they should be …
The Word of an Engineer
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…
The Ships that Won't Go Down
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …
The Merry Anne
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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.
This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…