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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner's life alone is spared and he repents, but he must wander the earth and tell his tale with the lesson that...
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - Logan Marshall
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - Logan Marshall
- Author: Logan Marshall
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived (gutenberg.org)....
Man Overboard - Francis Marion Crawford
Man Overboard - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin Benton brothers. But oddly...
A Marriage at Sea - William Clark Russell
A Marriage at Sea - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Herbert Barclay is desperately in love with Grace Bellassys, but a number of factors stand in the way of their happiness, the biggest of which is the person of Lady Amelia Roscoe, Grace's guardian. Lady Amelia has several objections to the union,...
The Frozen Deep - Wilkie Collins
The Frozen Deep - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising and unexpected as we are (or are not) accustomed to...
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism,...
Mardi Vol. 1 - Herman Melville
Mardi Vol. 1 - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see...
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates - Charles S. BROOKS
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Plays
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 canvasβa typhoon to smother our stage in wind. We had hoped to walk a victim off the plank, with the sea roaring in the wings. But...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906 - 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...
The Three Midshipmen - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
The Three Midshipmen - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Author: William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
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 a boarding school, and become fast friends, not least because together they stand up to the school bullies....
Typee - Herman Melville
Typee - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville's...
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice - Jules Verne
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice - 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...
Robinson Crusoe (version 2) - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (version 2) - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoeβs hard-luck character is still the standard for βgrowing where youβre planted.β Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures before winning his way back to...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward Island where she was born and grew...
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. - The Secret Sharer was first published in...
Peter Simple - Frederick MARRYAT
Peter Simple - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Peter Simple, 'the fool of the family', son of a parson but heir presumptive to a title, goes to sea as midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. Naturally, at sea in this period is where adventures are just waiting for a lad like Peter, and so he does...
The Three Lieutenants - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
The Three Lieutenants - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Author: William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their paths and climbed the ranks, and now is the time that they seek to get back into touch - particularly now that...
Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, providing shelter, food, and clothing for himself from the few tools he rescued from the ship and...
Toilers of the Sea - Victor HUGO
Toilers of the Sea - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This is the story of a manβs monumental struggle against nature, to win the hand of the woman he loves, and surmount every difficulty that Nature puts in his path (Summary by Alisson Veldhuis)...
Treasure Island (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know of it.A local squire outfits a...
Treasure Island (version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the...
Cutlass and Cudgel - George Manville Fenn
Cutlass and Cudgel - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Action & Adventure
Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipman of the cutter is taken hostage by the smugglers and is befriended by a farm-boy, son of one of the...
Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe - Thomas Hood
Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 4, 2015.Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet, born in London. (Summary...
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert BARR
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author - publishing a book a year...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2) - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board...
The Atrocities of the Pirates - Aaron SMITH
The Atrocities of the Pirates - Aaron SMITH
- Author: Aaron SMITH
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. Forced to work as a navigator and as a member of pirate boarding parties, he witnessed unspeakable acts of...
The Pearl of Orr's Island - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Pearl of Orr's Island - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orrβs Island. See the raindrops glistening on the pine needles and hear the waves crashing on the rocks. This is a tale of romance, tragedy, crusty sea...
The Watchman and Other Poems - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Watchman and Other Poems - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry
While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems. Her love of beauty, nature, and the sea is evident in this, the only volume of her poetry published during...
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Nautical & Marine Fiction
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams what adventures will follow in the man's wake. Soon, the once-peaceful inn is threatened by pirates, Jim's father is laid...
The Odyssey - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that...
Blake of the "Rattlesnake" - Frederick Thomas JANE
Blake of the "Rattlesnake" - Frederick Thomas JANE
- Author: Frederick Thomas JANE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that forecast a British defeat in the event of war in the late 19th century when he wrote this fictional account of "The Man...
A Cruise in an Opium Clipper - Lindsay ANDERSON
A Cruise in an Opium Clipper - Lindsay ANDERSON
- Author: Lindsay ANDERSON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. It was the subject of an 1891 book, A cruise in an opium clipper, by Captain Lindsay Anderson. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan to foreigners in 1858, serving as a dispatch boat between Nagasaki...
In Search of the Castaways - Jules Verne
In Search of the Castaways - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland decide to launch a rescue expedition....
The Moorland Cottage - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Moorland Cottage - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence shows the change in women's role,...
Pocket Island - Charles Clark MUNN
Pocket Island - Charles Clark MUNN
- Author: Charles Clark MUNN
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds many secrets and legends, and...
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - Jack London
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of βwooden ships and iron menβ are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing...
Erie Waters - E. Pauline Johnson
Erie Waters - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her descent and also in virtue of...
The Beach of Dreams - H. De Vere Stacpoole
The Beach of Dreams - H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow hands must climb a mast of the three-master to control a rigging gone astray. Once they master that runaway...
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War - Herman Melville
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the narrator has created for the reader graphic...
Saved at Sea - Mrs. O. F. Walton
Saved at Sea - Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Author: Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Christian Fiction
Alick was born in a lighthouse during a storm, and raised in the same lighthouse. He used to wish something would change, and one day something did. In an attempt to rescue a ship in distress, Alick and his grandfather end up with a baby girl. Who...
