Nautical & Marine Fiction
20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer
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Jules Verne
20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer ist ein Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Jules Verne. Der Roman ist vorgeblich ein Erlebnisbericht …
The Sea Wolf
Read by Tom Crawford
Jack London
The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies…
Robinson Crusoe (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
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Jules Verne
Dans ce roman, le scientifique français Pierre Aronnax, son fidèle domestique Conseil et le harponneur canadien Ned Land sont …
Das Wrack
Read by Karlsson
Friedrich Gerstäcker
Nördlich von Australien, um 1840. Während einer Reise von Sidney nach Singapur sichtet die Mannschaft des Segelschiffes Betsy Ann …
Captains Courageous
Read by Mark F. Smith
Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Glouce…
Heart of Darkness
Read by Kristin LeMoine
Joseph Conrad
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and m…
Trafalgar
Read by Tux
Benito Pérez Galdós
Trafalgar, es el primero de los 46 Episodios Nacionales, escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós, que es considerado el mayor novelis…
An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields
Read by Esther
Jules Verne
Edgar Allan Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len G…
Treasure Island (Version 4)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Read by Tom Crawford
Jack London
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Lord Thomas Cochrane
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…
In Search of the Castaways
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Jules Verne
The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself …
Stories of Ships and the Sea
Read by William Tomcho
Jack London
5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)
The U-boat Hunters
Read by William Tomcho
James Brendan Connolly
The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encoun…
The Atrocities of the Pirates
Read by James K. White
Aaron Smith
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…
Typee
Read by Michael Scherer
Herman Melville
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …
The Sea Hawk
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Rafael Sabatini
The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish …
The Riddle of the Sands
Read by Gesine
Erskine Childers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…