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Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
- Author: Alexandre Exquemelin
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America...
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But...
Atlantis - Gerhart Hauptmann
Atlantis - Gerhart Hauptmann
- Author: Gerhart Hauptmann
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a...
Selected Public Domain Poems - John Masefield
Selected Public Domain Poems - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry / Philosophy
Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (Summary by Liam Neely)...
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Science Fiction
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into...
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)...
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
- Author: Captain Charles Johnson
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pseudonym.The real identity of the...
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas - Herman Melville
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which...
An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields - Jules Verne
An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len Guy trace the fate of his brother's ship the Jane; the very ship that Arthur Pym was on board at the time of...
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)...
Eirik the Red's Saga - Anonymous
Eirik the Red's Saga - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry
In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland the Good (a place where wheat and grapes grew naturally), after his longboat was blown off-course. By...
Biltmore Oswald - J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
Biltmore Oswald - J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
- Author: J. Thorne Smith Jr.
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully ill prepared for his arrival and dubious contribution. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell)...
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon. Other characters include the young...
Fighting the Whales - R. M. Ballantyne
Fighting the Whales - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Action & Adventure
A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it's also a rousing adventure story. One is left with the...
The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial and...
Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable - Lucy Aikin
Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable - Lucy Aikin
- Author: Lucy Aikin
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Action & Adventure
All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer and writing as Mary Godolphin, accomplishes this with apparent ease in this little book. The story of a...
The Cruise of the Esmeralda - Harry Collingwood
The Cruise of the Esmeralda - Harry Collingwood
- Author: Harry Collingwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is said to have buried a vast fortune in gold and jewels somewhere in the Eastern Seas. The catch: all...
The Sea Hawk - Rafael Sabatini
The Sea Hawk - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous brother. After being...
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2) - Frank R. Stockton
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2) - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rolicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of the United States. The stories don't cast pirates in the glowing light of modern day renditions - in...
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole - Jules Verne
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the place no matter what. Mutiny by the...
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton - Daniel Defoe
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for...
For Treasure Bound - Harry Collingwood
For Treasure Bound - Harry Collingwood
- Author: Harry Collingwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the hero, whose name is incidentally also Harry Collingwood, on a quest to the pacific islands for treasure and his...
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young yachtsman still maintains his hold upon...
The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross
The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross
- Author: Albert Kinross
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a witch, a hairy man, and various...
In Search of Mademoiselle - George Gibbs
In Search of Mademoiselle - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores.... The most thrilling chapter in all this...
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate' - Thornton Jenkins Hains
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate' - Thornton Jenkins Hains
- Author: Thornton Jenkins Hains
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow manages to hold things together between a murdering former captain, a captain who may not actually be a...
The Trawler - James Brendan Connolly
The Trawler - James Brendan Connolly
- Author: James Brendan Connolly
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Trawler is a short story revolving around the trying life of a group of bank fishermen based in Gloucester. Skipper Hugh Glynn worked his men hard; some said too hard, and Arthur Snow was one who had paid the ultimate price. Arthur's close...
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a...
The Frozen Pirate - William Clark Russell
The Frozen Pirate - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years (Summary by P. Cunningham)...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
Janet of the Dunes - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
Janet of the Dunes - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Author: Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Known primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in adult prose as well. Janet of the Dunes is one such departure wherein she masterfully takes us into the lives...
Flood Tide - Sara Ware BASSETT
Flood Tide - Sara Ware BASSETT
- Author: Sara Ware BASSETT
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on Cape Cod. Whenever he was 'ketched' by an 'idee' he had to see it to completion, and always did. His small...
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Single Author Collections
This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, horror, and adventure. Beware. There will be ghosts, pirates, scholars, death, taxes, at least one princess, and...
The Copper Princess - Kirk MUNROE
The Copper Princess - Kirk MUNROE
- Author: Kirk MUNROE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper mining inheritance against smugglers...
On the Shore - Susan Coolidge
On the Shore - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did. This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. - Summary by Rachel...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Short Stories
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 A. Gordon Pym. In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and experiences shipwreck, mutiny, and...
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora - George HAMILTON
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora - George HAMILTON
- Author: George HAMILTON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain Edward Edwards, also was ordered...
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
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 his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very...
