Fiction - Sea Stories

Capitaines Courageux: Une histoire du banc de Terre-NeuveCe petit Cheyne, c'est la peste du bord dit, en fermant la porte d'un coup de poing, un passager en pardessus velu et fris. On n'en a nul besoin ici. Il est par trop impertinent. Peuh! Il...

Captain Blood CHAPTER I. THE MESSENGER CHAPTER II. KIRKE'S DRAGOONS CHAPTER III. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CHAPTER IV. HUMAN MERCHANDISE CHAPTER V. ARABELLA BISHOP CHAPTER VI. PLANS OF ESCAPE CHAPTER VII. PIRATES CHAPTER VIII. SPANIARDS CHAPTER IX. THE REBELS-CONVICT CHAPTER X. DON DIEGO CHAPTER...

Captain Blood ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 6548 Author: Sabatini, Rafael Release Date: Sep 1, 2004 Format: eBook Language: English

Captain BloodDenny Sayers, Sandra in Wales, United Kingdom, Caitlin Kelly, Jeff Robinson, J. M. Smallheer, fieldsofgold, Sayeth, Christ Langston, mrhinman, Michelle Crandall, Paul Siegel, Robin Cotter The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a)...

Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved...

Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea PiratesThey had seen the fog rolling down the coast shortly after the Maggie had rounded Pilar Point at sunset and headed north. Captain Scraggs has been steamboating too many unprofitable years on San Francisco Bay, the Suisun and San...

Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous is a story that follows fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr. through his adventures. Harvey is the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, and is spoiled and largely unaware of the ways of the world. When he is stranded on the shore...

A Penguin Classic First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishing ship We're Here. Obstinate...

Chance: A Tale in Two PartsI believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the...

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9341 Author: Conrad, Joseph Release Date: Nov 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English

Chance: A Tale in Two PartsI believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the...

A story of desperate immigrants looking for adventure, advancement, love, and, most of all, a sense of belonging in the colonies London, 1763: Gifted musician and medical apprentice Michael Shea is living rough after being blackballed from working as a surgeon's assistant. Not only...

It's the most wonderful time of the year... and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village! From the beloved author whose novels are "sheer indulgence from start to finish" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story -- funny, heartfelt, romantic and...

It's the most wonderful time of the year... and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village! From the beloved author whose novels are "sheer indulgence from start to finish" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story -- funny, heartfelt, romantic and...

CommandThis book is inscribed to those commanders under whom the author has had the honour to serve, who have achieved firmness without asperity, tact and sympathy without interference, and appreciation without fuss. It is inscribed to these gentlemen because while they lack the gift...

Hornblower finds himself fighting Napoleonic forces in Russia in this "extremely entertaining" (Christian Science Monitor) chapter in C. S. Forester's beloved naval adventure series. The year is 1812. Hornblower has been ordered to do everything possible, diplomatically and militarily, to protect the Baltic trade...

Concerning "Bully" Hayes - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 "BULLY" HAYES! Oh, halcyon days of the sixties and seventies, when the Pacific was not, as now, patrolled by men-of-war from lonely Pylstaart, in the Friendlies, to the...

Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked...

Steinbeck's first novel and sole work of historical fiction--the violent, exciting story of the infamous pirate Henry Morgan A Penguin Classic From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts...

"An immersive and engrossing mystery." --Tania Blanchard, bestselling author"A masterfully crafted dual timeline." --Tea Cooper, USA TODAY bestselling authorTwo women. One shipwreck. And four centuries of secrets.Shortly before Christmas in 2018, Tess McCarthy, after years as a hard-working English teacher who never did anything...