Nautical & Marine Fiction

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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

627

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

557

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

531

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

481

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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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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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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Nautical & Marine Fiction

492

Joseph Conrad - Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)

Peter Kelleher 8 hours 6 minutes

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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Nautical & Marine Fiction

472

Logan Marshall - Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived (gutenberg.org).

Allyson Hester 7 hours 51 minutes

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Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Jules Verne - Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

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 Guy trace the fate of his brother's ship the Jane; the very ship that Arthur...

Esther 8 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

472

Sarah Orne Jewett - Deephaven

Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human...

Betsie Bush 5 hours 18 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Typhoon

Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a...

Russ Maxwell and 5 more 3 hours 3 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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