Non, Pierre n'aime pas les ragots, d'ailleurs il refuse de les écouter, quoique... pour l'objet de son désir il ferait bien une exception! Dans un petit port breton se languit un voilier, réceptacle de vieilles rancœurs. Pierre, doux rêveur se morfond dans la ville. Il rêve de voyages, d'aventures... Au cours d'une errance, sur la cte, il découvre ce mystérieux bateau dont il s'entiche. Malgré les ragots des villageois qui donnent une aura...

Histoires maritimes Onze récits de mer réunis par Edouard Corbière et publiés en 1834, peu après les Pilotes de l'Iroise et le Négrier, remarqués par la critique en 1832. Un ouvrage rassemblant des contes qui ont un thème commun: la mer et la navigation! EXTRAIT DE LE ROI-MATELOT Aussitt qu'ils virent Pique-à-Terre à la cte, ils allèrent le chercher en dansant chica et en battant des entrechats à la sauvage. Comme ce jour-là précisément...

Get swept up in this historical Newberry Award winner about pirates and the open seas Fans of the Pirates of Caribbean movies and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island will love this original, award-winning young adult story! In seventeenth-century London, Phil, a nineteen-year-old sailor, has been recently orphaned. After an accident involving a gun, Phil runs away, soon ending up on a sailing ship, Rose of Devon. Phil works his way up in the...

Les aventures extraordinaires d'un emblématique capitaine, héros romantique en quête d'un apaisement qu'il poursuit sans jamais l'atteindre Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, publié en 1870. Il est le sixième de la série des Voyages Extraordinaires; il fait suite aux Enfants du capitaine Grant et se complète par l'Île mystérieuse. Un monstre marin de proportions gigantesques répand la terreur sur...

On a windswept British coastline, the tide deposits an unexpected gift... It was, the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a sealskin, the baby girl looks up at Effie and instantly captures her heart. She meant only to temporarily foster the young orphan but when news reaches Effie that her husband has been lost at sea, and months pass without anyone claiming the infant,...

Kidnapped was published in 1886 amid one of the most productive periods of Robert Louis Stevenson's career. Although it was immediately met with popular success and critical acclaim, the novel was derided for decades as a story for children before being recognized as a major work of English literature. Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and full of a rich blend of English and Scots, Kidnapped is a powerful work with strong Scottish...

A 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Pyle compiled the traditional Robin Hood ballads as a series of episodes of a coherent narrative. For his characters' dialog, Pyle adapted the late Middle English of the ballads into a dialect suitable for children. The novel is notable for taking the subject of Robin Hood, which had been increasingly popular through the 19th century, in a new direction that influenced later writers,...