Sea Stories
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
By: Patrick O'Brian
Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life, having earned reinstatement to the Royal Navy through his exploits as a privateer. Now he shepherds Stephen Maturin on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between...
Published: Aug 1992
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Depths
By: Henning Mankell
Internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell delivers a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his devastating plunge into obsession.In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 416
Aka
By: Tristan Jones
In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse,...
Published: Sep 1998
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 224
An Ill Wind (John Pearce)
By: David Donachie
1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home to freedom and intent on putting the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But in the confusion of the evacuation of Toulon, as citizens try to flee the Republican Army and the guillotine,...
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 288
Captain of Rome (Masters of the Sea)
By: John Stack
The second installment in this thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas.Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the Roman navy's attack fleet. But his inexperienced...
Published: Jan 2011
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 400
Exiles
By: Ron Hansen
In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, Germany, bound for America. On board were five nuns, exiled by a ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Their journey would end when the Deutschland ran...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 240
In the King's Name
By: Alexander Kent
Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from...
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 264
Invasion: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
By: Julian Stockwin
In the 10th book of the popular series, rumors fly of Napoleon's planned invasion of England, and British naval commander Thomas Kydd is sent to liaise with American inventor Robert Fulton, who has created "infernal machines" that can wreak...
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 320
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i
By: Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore is best known for her critically acclaimed novelscomplex and compelling works like In the Cut and My Old Sweetheart. Now, Moore’s Light Years is a shimmering look at the early life of this cherished novelist. Taking the form...
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 208
Ship of Rome (Masters of the Sea)
By: John Stack
Against a backdrop of the clash of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seasAtticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome's small, coastal fleet, is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus,...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 368
Tenacious: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
By: Julian Stockwin
Lieutenant Thomas Kydd takes his place on the quarterdeck as commander of the ship Tenacious in this riveting sailing adventure. Part of a small squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, Kydd scours the Mediterranean in search of Napoleon...
Published: Oct 2007
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 335
The Mammoth Book of Men 'O War
By: Mike Ashley
Gathering new and rare stories from Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Kenneth Bulmer, Richard Butler, and many others, veteran anthologist Mike Ashley has gathered together many of the best-loved writers of seafaring stories. Their tales collected...
Published: Jul 2009
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 512
The Reverse of the Medal
By: Patrick O'Brian
In the early 1800s, the British Navy stands as the only bulwark against the militant fanaticism of Napoleonic France. When Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., returns from a tour of duty protecting whalers off South America and is lured into the criminal...
Published: Jul 1992
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
The Wicked Trade (The Sea Officer William Bentley Novels)
By: Jan Needle
Young William Bentley, survivor of the bloody Welfare mutiny, reluctantly resumes his naval career as an officer on the press tender Biter. When the Biter is reassigned to combat the wicked trade of smuggling, Bentley is caught up in the...
Published: Apr 2001
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 384
Twelve Seconds to Live (The Modern Naval Fiction Library)
By: Douglas Reeman
The mine is an impartial killer, and defusing it requires steady nerves, steady hands, and an intrepid flirtation with death. Haunted by the mine that destroyed his first command, H.M. Submarine Tornado, Lieutenant-Commander David Masters now defuses...
Published: May 2003
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 368
Under the Black Ensign (Stories from the Golden Age)
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Golden Age story. Sea Adventure. Originally published in the 1935 August issue of Five Novels Monthly
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 121
Victory: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
By: Julian Stockwin
In the 11th book of this popular series, Napoleon Bonaparte continues planning for the invasion of England as Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Royal Navy patrol the seas, seeking out their...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 320
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War: Volume Five (Melville)
By: Herman Melville
Oh, shipmates and world-mates, all round! we the people suffer many abuses. Our gun-deck is full of complaints. In vain from Lieutenants do we appeal to the Captain; in vain--while on board our world-frigate--to the indefinite Navy Commissioners, so...
Published: Nov 2000
Genre: Fiction - Sea Stories
Pages: 400