Nautical & Marine Fiction

The Ghost Ship

by John C. Hutcheson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.6
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…

Den siste viking

by Johan Bojer Read by Kathrine Engan 5
Denne romanen forteller historien om ei gruppe fattige fiskere på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet og et års Lofotfiske. Vi føl…

Toilers of the Sea

by Victor Hugo Read by John Greenman 4.1
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

by Unknown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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

by Cornelia Meigs Read by Roger Melin 4.1
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

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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

by William Clark Russell Read by Steven Seitel 4.2
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

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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

by Jack London Read by Tom Crawford 4.4
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

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
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

by Herman Melville Read by TriciaG 3.9
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

by Morgan Robertson Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
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

by Charles Ellms Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
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

by William Henry Giles Kingston and W. H. G. Kingston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
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

by Thomas Mayne Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"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

by Thomas Mayne Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"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

by Joseph Conrad Read by Anthony Ogus 4.4
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

by Sir Wilfred Grenfell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Dive deep into the heart of the Labrador Sea, sharing the rugged lives of fishermen and their indomitable spirit. Wilfred Grenfell, a doctor…

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