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Jack London - Sea Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote «The great...

Tom Crawford 11 hours 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

425

Kirk Munroe - Copper Princess

The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper...

Betsie Bush 5 hours 58 minutes

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Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the...

Kristine Bekere and 4 more 7 hours 57 minutes

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Historical Fiction

545

Frederick Marryat - Mr. Midshipman Easy

One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 17 minutes

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General Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 17 hours 40 minutes

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General Fiction

538

Maturin Murray Ballou - Sea-Witch

Maturin Murray Ballou was the author of dozens of books, chiefly centered around his extensive sea travel. He was deputy navy-agent in the Boston Custom House and circumnavigated in 1882, collecting material for...

woggy298 and 3 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Alexandre Exquemelin - Pirates of Panama

This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand...

Sibella Denton and 4 more 6 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

559

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Land that Time Forgot

The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was «The Lost U-Boat.» Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the...

Ralph Snelson 3 hours 49 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Morgan Robertson - Futility, Or the Wreck of the Titan

This novel was published a full 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, but listeners may be surprised at how many parallels this fictional tale has with subsequent true events. The Titan is the largest and...

Tom Weiss 2 hours 33 minutes

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Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rolicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of the United States. The stories don't cast pirates in the glowing light of...

Sibella Denton and 8 more 7 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Stanton Henry King - Dog-Watches At Sea

Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors'...

Peter Kelleher 7 hours 35 minutes

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Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways

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 after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland...

Sibella Denton and 18 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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