Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Francis Marion Crawford - Man Overboard

Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin...

Roger Melin 1 hour 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Samuel Merwin - Merry Anne

This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the...

Betsie Bush 6 hours 55 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Thornton Jenkins Hains - Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate'

This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow manages to hold things together between a murdering former captain, a captain...

Mark F. Smith 6 hours 36 minutes

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Captain Charles Johnson - General History of the Pyrates

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a...

Barry Eads and 10 more 12 hours 47 minutes

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Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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George Hamilton - Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora

George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain...

Roy Schreiber 2 hours 54 minutes

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Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Daniel Defoe - Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a «bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy....

Denny Sayers 13 hours 24 minutes

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Historical Fiction

Howard Pyle - Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)

Epistomolus and 4 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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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

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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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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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