Fiction - Sea Stories

Declan O Donnell has sailed deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. But...

The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years AgoIn compliance with your request I shall now transcribe from the journal of my younger days some portions of my adventurous life. When I wrote, I painted the feelings of my heart without reserve, and I shall not alter...

The PrivateersmanIn compliance with your request I shall now transcribe from the journal of my younger days some portions of my adventurous life. When I wrote, I painted the feelings of my heart without reserve, and I shall not alter one word, as I...

The Rescue ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9355 Author: Conrad, Joseph Release Date: Nov 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English

The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows 'Allas!' quod she, 'that ever this sholde happe! For wende I never, by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!' THE FRANKELEYN'S TALE TO FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD LAST AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...

The Riddle of the Sands A word about the origin and authorship of this book. In October last (1902), my friend Carruthers visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of the adventure described in...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Guide and The Dog Stars comes the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. "A fiery tour de force ... I...

The RoverAfter entering at break of day the inner roadstead of the Port of Toulon, exchanging several loud hails with one of the guardboats of the Fleet, which directed him where he was to take up his berth, Master-Gunner Peyrol let go the anchor...

A woman escaping her past...Kristy Gallagher has slayed a monster before. When she could no longer live with her husband's abuse, she plunged a knife into his neck. Then, she fled his family's criminal empire-changing her name and traveling to the far reaches of...

The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost SealersIf any thing connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently...

Based on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig's The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom."Goes beyond being 'about' survival and becomes, mile by terrible mile, the experience itself."--New York Times Book ReviewIn this...

Winner of the Booker Prize--a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir...

The Sea-Hawk Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always normal. He says,...

The Sea-Wolf I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseths credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed...

In The Sea-Wolf, London's most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Through this story London recalls his own adventures on a sealing...

Author: Jack LondonPublisher: Modern LibraryPublished: 11/14/2000Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.17w x 0.71dISBN: 9780679783374Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.1Point Value: 18Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 717 / Sea-Wolf (Unabridged)About the AuthorJack London (1876-1916) was born John Chaney in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1896 he was...

The Second Mate The Sulu Queen was steaming south at an eight-knot clip, which for her was exceedingly good, bound for Macassar, Singapore and way ports, according to the dispensation of Providence. Her tail shaft was likely to go at any minute; she had...

The Secret of the Sands; Or, The "Water Lily" and her CrewThe attention of the public has been directed, on more than one occasion within the last few years, to voyages of a more or less lengthy character, undertaken in craft of very small...

The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of...

The Secret Sharer ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9351 Author: Conrad, Joseph Release Date: Nov 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English