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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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Billy Budd
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Herman Melville |
TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR
Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful … |
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Querelle de Brest
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Jean Genet |
**From Wikipedia:**
***Spoiler alert!***
The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer. When his ship, the Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he vis… |
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Flint and silver
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John Drake |
John Silver had never killed a man. But on a smouldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. With their comrades intent on revenge, Silver's promi… |
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Djibouti
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Elmore Leonard |
In a modern-day pirate story, ambitious documentary filmmaker Dara Barr and her right-hand man, Xavier LeBo, a 72-year-old African American seafarer, get more than they bargained for on the Horn of A… |
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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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Jamrach's menagerie
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Carol Birch |
Jaffy Brown is running through the London backstreets when he comes face to face with the escaped circus animal. His life is transformed by the encounter. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach… |
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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 price of glory
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Seth Hunter |
Captain Nathan Peake survives a ferocious battle on the treacherous seas off Brittany, only to be cast into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the … |
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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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The Sea is My Brother
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Jack Kerouac |
"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it… |
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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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The rogue pirate's bride
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Shana Galen |
British Admiral's daughter Raeven Russell believes Bastien is responsible for her fiancé's death. But once the fiery beauty crosses swords with Bastien, she's not so sure she really wants him to chan… |
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Until the sea shall give up her dead
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Sean Russell |
"Charles Hayden returns in the thrilling new naval adventure from bestselling author S. Thomas Russell, today's 'Patrick O'Brian for a new generation' (Kirkus Reviews). Master and Commander Charles 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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Stranded
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Bracken MacLeod |
"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog.… |
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The nature of a pirate
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A. M. Dellamonica |
"Marine videographer and biologist Sophie Hansa has spent the past few months putting her knowledge of science to use on the strange world of Stormwrack, solving seemingly impossible cases where no s… |
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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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