Nautical & Marine Fiction
A Great Sea Mystery
On December 4, 1872, The American merchant brigantine ship "Mary Celeste" was found adrift and deserted, under partial sail, with …
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates invites listeners into a world of adventure on the high seas, where legendary pirates and buccaneers roam the …
A Voyage to the South Sea
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…
Mardi
Mardi is Herman Melville's imaginative exploration of the South Seas, blending adventure with philosophical inquiry. Set against the backdro…
Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea
Ten accounts of events from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when life at sea was a perilous venture. The book is presented as a seri…
The Frozen Pirate
Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…
The Sea Wolf
The Sea Wolf is a gripping tale of survival and transformation set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. When literary crit…
Den siste viking
Denne romanen forteller historien om ei gruppe fattige fiskere på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet og et års Lofotfiske. Vi føl…
Typhoon
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…
Ran Away to Sea
"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…
A Prisoner of Morro
Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckrak…
Biltmore Oswald
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …
The Sailor's Word-book
An encyclopaedia (a digest, the author calls it) of nautical terms and other words relevant to navigation, the character of seamen, this boo…
Wappin' Wharf
We had hoped that our drama's scene might lie on a pirate ship at sea. We had wished for a swaying mast, full-set with canvas—a typhoon to s…
Omoo
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leavi…
The Phantom Death
This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part s…
The Submarine Boys and the Middies
The Pollard is about to be taken to Anapolis, where the United States Navy will train their midshipmen how to run the submarine. Jack, Hal …
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition
This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of …
Toilers of the Sea
The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island communit…
The Ghost Ship
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work o…