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White-Jacket
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Herman Melville |
In the year 1843 I shipped as Ordinary seaman on
board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbour
of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for
more than a year, I was disc… |
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Under Enemy Colours
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Sean Thomas Russell |
1793: the thunder of cannon fire echoes across theEnglish Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts . . .The opening skirmishes of the French Revolutionary War send ageing frigate HMS Themis into waters … |
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In the King's Name
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Douglas Reeman |
Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an u… |
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The mountain of gold
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J. D. Davies |
Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled… |
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Swell
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Io anna Karystiane |
The moment of reckoning has arrived. After 12 years at sea, it is time for Captain Mitsos Avgoustis to return to the island of his birth: home to his wife Flora, his children, a granddaughter he has … |
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Mariner's ark
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Peter Tonkin |
Richard Mariner is in California to oversee the arrival of his container ship and join Nic Greenbaum aboard his yacht for a race. However storm with the potential to cause devastation overwhelms them… |
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Captains Courageous
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Rudyard Kipling |
Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlanti… |
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The whispering muse
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Sjón |
Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales h… |
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Landfalls
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Naomi J. Williams |
"Reimagines the historical Lapérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, more than two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in … |
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Tipping point
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David Poyer |
"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to … |
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Archipelago
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Monique Roffey |
When a flood destroys Gavin Weald's home, tearing apart his family and his way of life, he doesn't know how to continue. A year later, he returns to his rebuilt home and tries to start again, but whe… |
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Pasha
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Julian Stockwin |
"Word has come from the British ambassador Arbuthnot that the neutral Turks are being wooed by the French and if the ancient city of Constantinople falls into their hands, Napoleon's route to India w… |
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The Man Without a Country
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Edward Everett Hale |
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr. |
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False cargo
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L. Ron Hubbard |
Brent Calloway is hired by an insurance firm to board a cargo vessel undercover and ensure it makes its way to San Diego in one piece. Once the voyage is underway, Calloway finds fraud, a pattern of … |
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Rites of passages
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Annie Proulx,William Golding,Fernando Santos Fontenla |
During the early 18th century, passengers on a ship to Australia include a parson whom the crew choses as a scapegoat. |
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Jaws
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Peter Benchley |
Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out… |
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Small boat adventures
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Brown, Michael |
Thirteen stories about small boat adventures including the true-life account of President Kennedy's ordeal on the PT 109 and fictional accounts by such authors as Herman Melville, Jack London, and Ja… |
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Path of the Storm
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Douglas Reeman |
The U.S.S. *Hibiscus*, with Mark Gunnar as its battle-scarred captain, is ordered to a group of Pacific islands. Gunnar and his crew get a cool reception there, which changes to hostility when one cr… |
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Plague Ship
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Jack du Brul,Clive Cussler |
For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits ofthe Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on theoutside but, on the inside, packed with sophisticatedweaponry and intelligence-gatheri… |
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Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea
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Carl Bowen |
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the world’s greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with … |
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