Fiction - Sea Stories

A Modern TelemachusThe idea of this tale was taken from The Mariners Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early in the last centurya curious book of narratives of maritime adventures, with exceedingly quaint illustrations. Nothing has ever shown me more plainly that truth...

Wander to "where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land" with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king of tropical rock, Jimmy Buffett. It's not...

A Son of the Sun The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white...

A Tale of Two Tunnels: A Romance of the Western WatersROUND THE GALLEY FIRE. IN THE MIDDLE WATCH. ON THE FO'K'SLE HEAD. A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE. A BOOK FOR THE HAMMOCK. THE MYSTERY OF THE 'OCEAN STAR.' THE ROMANCE OF JENNY HARLOWE. AN...

A secret room beneath the Sunrise Cove Inn unlocks a history far more dramatic than the Sheridans could have ever imagined.Amanda and Sam welcome their gorgeous baby girl the same week a construction crew discovers a sealed-up room in the basement of the Sunrise...

BOLD: After a season of loss, the Montgomery Family opens their hearts to a springtime of change.Last autumn, Laura's death shocked the Montgomery Family to the core.Laura's daughter, Isabella, is crippled with sorrow and turns to Laura's diaries for comfort. What she finds there-...

Aarresaari SISLLYS: I osa Vanha merirosvo. 1. Vanha merikarhu "Amiraali Benbow'ssa" 2. Musta koira ilmestyy ja katoaa. 3. Musta merkki. 4. Merimiesarkku. 5. Sokean merimiehen viimeiset hetket. 6. Kapteenin paperit. II osa. Laivakokki. 7. Min matkustan Bristoliin. 8. "Thystjss." 9. Ruuti ja aseet. 10....

Hornblower confronts pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in this excellent installment (The Atlantic) in C. S. Forester's beloved saga of naval adventures. In the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the legendary Rear Admiral Lord Hornblower struggles to impose order. Serving as commander-in-chief...

Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as truth, that, in the present instance, he is resolved to say nothing on the subject....

In 1856, Lieutenant Henry Aaron Bird makes a startling discovery: a speechless, shipwrecked young girl, living a feral existence on a remote Pacific island. When he exhibits her as a "wild girl" in the chaotic sprawl of early San Francisco, this golden-haired child without...

Alita's Curse is a fictional story based on a 1904 sea otter hunt and the lives of my great grandparents, Alita Kochutin-Berikoff and Emilian Z. Berikoff. Through strength and keen inventiveness, the Unangan have lived and thrived on the Aleutian Archipelago, a chain of...

Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, All Aunt Hagar's Children. In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award-winning story...

All the Brothers Were ValiantThe fine old house stood on Jumping Tom Hill, above the town. It had stood there before there was a town, when only a cabin or two fringed the woods below, nearer the shore. The weather boarding had been brought...

An Old Sailor's Yarns[Pg 6]Mr. Buckingham, noticing the "Nautical Reminiscences" in the New England Magazine, says, no author ever stopped at the second book; and he very gravely proceeds to recommend that my number three should savor more of the style of Goldsmith or...

AssignatsWhen Ivan with the long surname walked down the beach at Novgorod he found three men. These men were sitting on their haunches staring out over the Japan Sea. Ivan spoke to them in English. The three men grew sad. They had been broken...

Auringon poika: Seikkailuja EtelämerelläWilli-Vaw oli ankkurissa rantasrkkin ja ulkosrkkin vlisess vylss. Viimeksimainituilta kuului heikon mainingin kohina, mutta niiden suojaama vesi oli sadan yardin leveydelt rannan korallihiekalle asti sile kuin lasi. Kapeassa ja matalassa vylss oli aluksen ankkuriketjua ulkona sadan jalan verran. Ruosteisena kiemurteli hllll...

Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer FishIt was upon a bright morning of the month of May, 1813, as I, a sailor just paid off from my last ship, was wandering along the wharves of Boston, that I was...

Called "as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across" by the New York Times, C. S. Forester's Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coast of Nicaragua. June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua...

The prequel story to the award-winning and bestselling video game franchise. How the majesty of Rapture, the shining city below the sea, became an instant dystopia It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an...

A 300-year-old mystery from one of the world's most notorious pirates leads to the adventure of a lifetime for two friends - an adventure which could lead to fame and fortune, or to their deaths. Deep within the archives at a museum in Raleigh,...