Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Ghost Ship
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work o…
Treasure Island
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…
Den siste viking
Denne romanen forteller historien om ei gruppe fattige fiskere på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet og et års Lofotfiske. Vi føl…
Toilers of the Sea
The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island communit…
Wreck of the London
Maritime life in the nineteenth century was as perilous as it was necessary. Whether voyages were military, exploratory or mercantile, or f…
The Island of Appledore
Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it…
The Phantom Death
This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part s…
The Wreck of the Corsaire
This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby climbs into the rigging of the Ruby in search of cooler air, he is struck …
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates invites listeners into a world of adventure on the high seas, where legendary pirates and buccaneers roam the …
The Sea Wolf
The Sea Wolf is a gripping tale of survival and transformation set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. When literary crit…
The Frozen Pirate
Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…
Omoo
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leavi…
The Pirates
A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. …
The Pirates Own Book
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some of history's most notorious sea robbers. This coll…
The Three Midshipmen
This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at …
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition
This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of …
The Ocean Waifs
"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …
Ran Away to Sea
"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…
Typhoon
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…
Labrador Days
Dive deep into the heart of the Labrador Sea, sharing the rugged lives of fishermen and their indomitable spirit. Wilfred Grenfell, a doctor…