Fiction - Sea Stories

"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks TO JAMES CONLAND, M.D., Brattleboro, Vermont I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old sea-faring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas....

"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet. "That Cheyne boy's the biggest nuisance aboard," said a...

"Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging in the Pacific - 1901 I had ridden all day through an endless vista ot ghostly grey gums and ironbarks, when I came in sight of the long wavering line of vivid green foliage which showed me that I...

"Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams - 1901 Half-way up the side of the mountain which overlooked the waters of the little land-locked harbour there was a space clear of timber. Huge, jagged rocks, whose surfaces were covered with creepers and grey...

"Old Mary" - 1901 Early one morning, just as the trade wind began to lift the white mountain mist which enveloped the dark valleys and mountain slopes of the island, Denison, the supercargo of the trading schooner Palestine, put off from her side and...

1492 THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never truly...

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaMarlo Dianne, Chip, Sean McGaughey, Efkan Efe, dougc, Kevin McAsh, ciaran.mooney, nausicaa, Calliope, RedToby, Robin Cotter, echo, Paul-Gabriel Wiener, carnright, Kevin LaVergne, Claire Goget, Alex Patterson, Zacharty Brewster-Geisz, J.M. Smallheer, Westwinds12, Meredith Hughes, grokfun, Eric Dennison, Reynard T. Fox,...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the WorldThe deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions...

20.000 Mijlen onder Zee: Oostelijk HalfrondHet jaar 1866 werd gekenmerkt door eene zonderlinge gebeurtenis, namelijk eene onverklaarbare verschijning, welke niemand zeker vergeten heeft. Zonder nog te gewagen van de praatjes, welke de bewoners der zeeplaatsen ongerust maakten en over het algemeen hen, die meer...

20.000 Mijlen onder Zee: Westelijk HalfrondXXV. De Indische Oceaan. XXVI. Een nieuw voorstel van Kapitein Nemo. XXVII. Een parel van vijf millioen. XXVIII. De Roode Zee. XXIX. De Arabische Tunnel. XXX. De Grieksche Archipel. XXXI. Door de Middellandsche Zee in twee dagen. XXXII. De...

Vingt mille Lieues Sous Les Mers — CompleteL'anne 1866 fut marque par un vnement bizarre, un phnomne inexpliqu et inexplicable que personne n'a sans doute oubli. Sans parler des rumeurs qui agitaient les populations des ports et surexcitaient l'esprit public l'intrieur des continents les...

Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers — Part 1L'anne 1866 fut marque par un vnement bizarre, un phnomne inexpliqu et inexplicable que personne n'a sans doute oubli. Sans parler des rumeurs qui agitaient les populations des ports et surexcitaient l'esprit public l'intrieur des continents...

Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers — Part 2Ici commence la seconde partie de ce voyage sous les mers. La premire s'est termine sur cette mouvante scne du cimetire de corail qui a laiss dans mon esprit une impression profonde. Ainsi donc, au sein...

Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the...

Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia--the only ship and her legendary captain who answered the distress call of the sinking Titanic. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the largest passenger liner...

A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern SeasA furious gust of wind tore down the chimney, blowing the smoke out into the small but cosily-furnished sitting-room of the little cottage at Kingston-on-Thames, and sending a shower of sparks hissing and spluttering on...

A Man to His MateIt was perfect weather along the San Francisco water-front, and Rainey reacted to the brisk touch of the trade-wind upon his cheek, the breeze tempering the sun, bringing with it a tang of the open sea and a hint of...

A Marriage at Sea My dandy-rigged yacht, the Spitfire, of twenty-six tons, lay in Boulogne harbour, hidden in the deep shadow of the wall against which she floated. It was a breathless night, dark despite the wide spread of cloudless sky that was brilliant...

A Modern BuccaneerI desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Louis Becke, author of By Reef and Palm, as to the South Sea Island portion of A Modern Buccaneer, with the exception of the chapter headed "Poisoned Arrows," which is founded upon the diary...