Fiction - Sea Stories

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...

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Poor JackI have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord 1786, for more than once I put the question to my father, and he invariably made the same reply: Why, Jack, you were launched a few months...

It's 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in the English countryside, besotted with two beautiful cousins, Sophie Williams and...

Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer I. The Pawning of the Fleet II. The Admission to the Brotherhood III. The Rape of the Spanish Pearls IV. The Ransoming of Caraccas V. The Passage-money VI. The Mermaid and the Act of Faith VII. The Galley VIII. The...

On orders from the Pentagon, marine explorer Dirk Pitt must salvage crucial material from the world's most infamous maritime disaster in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on...

Rattlin the ReeferIn the volume I am going to write, it is my intention to adhere rigidly to the truththis will be bon fide an autobiographyand, as the public like novelty, an autobiography without an iota of fiction in the whole of it, will...

Redburn. His First Voyage - Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; its just the thingtake it, it will save the expense...

Rídan the Devil, and Other Stories - 1899 Rdan lived alone in a little hut on the borders of the big German plantation at Mulifenua, away down at the lee end of Upolu Island, and every one of his brown-skinned fellow-workers either hated or...

Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval WarLand! land on the larboard bow! The cry was uttered in a foreign tongue from the masthead of a corvette of twenty guns, a beautiful long, low, flush-decked craft with dark hull,...

Rounding Cape Horn, and Other Sea Stories The hands of the clock in the life-saving station pointed to a quarter of nine, on a wild March night along the New England coast. A bitter north-easter raged outside, driving the rising tide higher and higher...

"A gifted storyteller and orchestrator of suspense."--Philadelphia Inquirer"Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller."--Orlando SentinelThe New York Times bestselling author of The Fort, the Saxon Tales, and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels, Bernard...

'A brooding tale from the murky depths below the English idyll. Coastal-horror at its finest' Matt Wesolowski The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted...

Captain Alister Paine has always had his good eye set on treasure, murder, and sinking ships. His fame as a ruthless, blood-thirsty pirate has spread across the Seven Seas. The Howling Death, his precious warship, is the deadliest ship on the ocean waters, striking...

Bennett Sharp is on the run.Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell.The unfaithful, stormy-eyed libertine hunts her with terrifying possessiveness. Nothing will stop him from coming for her. Not his unforgivable betrayal. Not when she's captured by...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - From the bestselling author of Heartwood comes a smart, sophisticated literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives. "Stunning. . . ....

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback--bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell brings life to one of the most spectacular naval battles in history with SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR."The greatest writer of historical adventures today." --Washington PostCritically acclaimed, perennial New York Times...

Don't miss out on the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last. This breathtaking collectible is only available on a limited first print run in the U.S. and Canada, a must-have for any book lover. "Dickson's novel keeps readers on the edge of their...

Hornblower leads his first ship of the line into enemy waters in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved adventure series, called "exciting, realistic, packed with grand naval action" by the New Yorker. May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio...