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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908 - 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 Riddle of the Sands - Erskine CHILDERS
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine CHILDERS
- Author: Erskine CHILDERS
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story.It was one of the early...
Dog-Watches At Sea - Stanton Henry KING
Dog-Watches At Sea - Stanton Henry KING
- Author: Stanton Henry KING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors' Haven, Boston, Massachusetts and...
The Ghost Ship - John C. HUTCHESON
The Ghost Ship - John C. HUTCHESON
- Author: John C. HUTCHESON
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work out their position, and yet again encounter the same vessel going in an impossible direction. Having warned...
Redburn: His First Voyage - Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign travel and adventure. In Redburn, the protagonist enlists for a stint as a...
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a...
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. βIt was a bad winter off the Cape that year.β From Wikepedia: βThe novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the...
The Sea-Witch - Maturin Murray BALLOU
The Sea-Witch - Maturin Murray BALLOU
- Author: Maturin Murray BALLOU
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Maturin Murray Ballou was the author of dozens of books, chiefly centered around his extensive sea travel. He was deputy navy-agent in the Boston Custom House and circumnavigated in 1882, collecting material for several travel accounts and various...
Jacob Faithful - Frederick MARRYAT
Jacob Faithful - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first served as a midshipman in the 38-gun frigate "HMS Imperieuse" commanded by Lord Cochran, 10th Earl of...
Mr. Midshipman Easy - Frederick MARRYAT
Mr. Midshipman Easy - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a satire on Jackβs attachment to...
Deephaven - Sarah Orne Jewett
Deephaven - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on...
Sea Stories - Various
Sea Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected ambition of many a youngster,...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary - Charles Dickens
The Wreck of the Golden Mary - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summary by JCarson )...
Poison Island - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
Poison Island - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds βa poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paintβ. Nothing can hold Harry back from...
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thingβand it is among the greatest...
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn - Harry Collingwood
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn - Harry Collingwood
- Author: Harry Collingwood
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Eric Blackburn's strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is engaged as fourth officer is struck by an enormous meteorite and sinks within minutes, and Blackburn is the sole survivor out of the 535 people on board that ship. Through...
Up the River - Oliver Optic
Up the River - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not...
A Prisoner of Morro - Upton Sinclair
A Prisoner of Morro - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, The Junglehref>, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction. Many of these works were written under...
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
SeΓ±or Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight behind the Ribierist project, which he...
Futility, Or the Wreck of the Titan - Morgan Robertson
Futility, Or the Wreck of the Titan - Morgan Robertson
- Author: Morgan Robertson
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This novel was published a full 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, but listeners may be surprised at how many parallels this fictional tale has with subsequent true events. The Titan is the largest and most technologically advanced...
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters - Frederick MARRYAT
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Pirates are the subject of many a dime novel and boys' stories, but they tend to be portrayed as one-dimensional. Such is the case here. The captain of The Avenger is a Byronic or even a Michael Scottish heroβan impossible monster, compounded of one...
Typhoon (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Typhoon (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under emotional strain with the consequences for social and spiritual existence. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Skipper's Wooing - W. W. JACOBS
The Skipper's Wooing - W. W. JACOBS
- Author: W. W. JACOBS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their resulting escapades prove to be highly amusing - Summary by Alan Lord...
The Rover - Joseph Conrad
The Rover - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of young Lieutenant Real necessitates another mission of danger, patriotism and heroism from Peyrol. Summary by...
The Frozen Pirate (version 2) - William Clark Russell
The Frozen Pirate (version 2) - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been hailed as the pre-eminent...
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815 - Thomas Wallace Knox
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815 - Thomas Wallace Knox
- Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of manhood at the end of Americaβs Revolutionary war, the oceanβs siren song beckoned to both. At the peak of...
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summarily convicted in a drum-head court martial, and hanged. Billy Budd is the final published work by Herman...
South Sea Tales - Jack London
South Sea Tales - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Single Author Collections
The eight short stories that comprise South Sea Tales are powerful tales that vividly evoke the early 1900βs colonial South Pacific islands. Tales of hurricanes, missionaries, brotherhood and seafaring are intertwined with enslavement, savagery, and...
Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery - Jules Verne
Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
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 - Verne expects Americans to perform epics. Young Godfrey goes to sea for adventure before settling down with...
The Last of the Vikings - Johan BOJER
The Last of the Vikings - Johan BOJER
- Author: Johan BOJER
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In a small village on the coast of Northern Norway lives the Myran family. Father is a fisher man and is, in the eyes of the oldest son, like a god on the sea. Mother spends every winter in fear of losing somebody she loves to the storms and waves....
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1 - William Clark Russell
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1 - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishes, he is coxswain of a lifeboat -- an important job along the treacherous coastline, which makes his mother...
The Phantom Death and Other Stories - William Clark Russell
The Phantom Death and Other Stories - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
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 set on ships and bring the reader on board for ghostly nights, wonderful sights, and strange occurrences....
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town - William Clark Russell
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time at sea now he lives on shore and wonders about a ship seen burning at sea the previous night. But there is...
The Wreck of the Corsaire - William Clark Russell
The Wreck of the Corsaire - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby climbs into the rigging of the Ruby in search of cooler air, he is struck full in the face and chest by an errant seabird bearing a sealed tin box tied about its neck. What he finds...
Heart of Darkness (version 3) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
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 wilderness. He soon becomes obsessed with the success of an ivory trading commander, Kurtz. Little does he know,...
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 2 - William Clark Russell
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 2 - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Volume 2 begins as our hero winds up his story. But the question remains, what happened to the other boat? Hugh and Helga have been picked up by a small boat, which is, apparently, headed for Australia against all seafaring wisdom. Too far from the...
