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Catty Atkins, Sailorman is a novel written by Clarence Budington Kelland, first published in 1921. Clarence Budington Kelland was an American author known for his humorous and heartwarming stories. Excerpt: "It seems as if Catty and I have a lot of luck, and this summer we had more than usual, for Mr. Browning, who lived in New York, and was interested in all kinds of businesses, invited us to go for a cruise on his yacht. He was out to our town to...
2) SS Misery
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Un libro sobre la supervivencia de la mente humana.
Dos hombres perdidos en el mar tienen que enfrentar la lucha de estar solos y a la deriva. Al principio se llevan bien, pero apenas aparece un regalo misterioso, las cosas empiezan a ir cuesta abajo.
Una novela que describe las condiciones en las que todos somos susceptibles. Un libro que muestra los límites de los humanos cuando enfrentamos la extinción personal.
Cuando Severo y Maximiliano...
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Walk on Water is a three part look, from the microcosm of surfing, into the schism between the forces of professionalism on the credibility of amateurism that engulfed all culture in the early 1970's.Part two follows two young friends whose mode of operation can be summed up as Billy with the spirit of a hermit and Jake the archetype pirate. It is a one year slice of life on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii; post-Vietnam for Billy, post escaping...
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Matthew Digby, a writer of popular adventure novels, is camped out on the Northern Atlantic coast of the Dominican Republic, hoping to find insights into the main character of his new novel about a salvage operation gone awry.Digby enlists the aid of a local spear fisherman to take him out beyond the reef, hoping for a sensory experience that will rid him of his writer's block.The experience turns out to be far more intense than Digby expected, and...
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La Cruz Del Corazon Rubi (The Cross of the Ruby Heart) follows the sea adventures of an old Mexican fisherman, Diego, who finds an old Spanish cross one day in the blue waters of the Sea of Cortez and discovers that the cross, although a rare and ancient treasure fashioned out of pure gold and encrusted with precious gems, is cursed and only brings tragedy and death to those who own it.
6) Superior
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Shortly after his arrival up at the family cottage on Lake Superior, Stan Goobash watches in horror as a mammoth sinkhole opens in the middle of the lake. Moments later, the greatest of all the Great Lakes is nothing more than a memory. Like others, Stan is drawn across the dry lakebed to the circular chasm that has swallowed one tenth of the world's supply of surface freshwater. An avid skydiver, Stan quickly formulates a plan to get to the bottom...
7) Sailor
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Submarines are dangerous war machines. They are dangerous to the enemy and to the crew. When one goes to the bottom of the sea, never to return, it is a national tragedy. When one is attacked, all hands are involved. When a crew of 140 is attack and one survives, it is a different story. This is the story of that one man.
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"La aventura de Juan Sebastián Elcano después de la primera vuelta al mundo"
Elcano recibía, en 1522, el derecho a usar un escudo de armas con el lema "Primus circumdedisti me". Carlos I se lo otorgaba tras culminar la primera circunnavegación a la tierra. Esa gesta, que generó no pocas tensiones con Portugal, lo convirtió en uno de los marinos más respetados del reino. Recompensado también con una generosa pensión, no iba, sin embargo, a...
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Jack and Joey are best buds . . . until they both fall for Chrissy. Then betrayal assumes a friend's smile on a tropical island where friendship is fleeting and the truth depends on who's telling the story.Also included is the short-short story The Gulf: Who are you when the thing you've prepped for hits and you react in a way you never dreamed? A way you despise?Two Tales From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson.
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In October 1851, the bustling harbors of Gloucester, Massachusetts marked the onset of a promising venture as the American fishing fleet set sail towards the bountiful mackerel run in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. However, as they neared the waters off Prince Edward Island, Canada, an unanticipated hurricane engulfed them in a tempest of terror and despair, obliterating over 200 schooners and vessels. The calamity claimed the lives of over 100...
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Five shipwrecked passengers fight panic, thirst, and the sea itself One minute, sailor Joseph Curtain is in his bunk. The next, he is submerged in the ocean. A German torpedo has struck the Aurora, and she is sinking fast. Curtain makes his way to a lifeboat and guides the survivors aboard. There are only six of them, and when the submarine's machine gun rakes the side of their boat, the number dwindles to five. Alongside Curtain are three men of...
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Caribbean dive guide Gage Hoase woos and wins a beautiful dive guest, then sends her packing. All is good until Gabi returns, with happily-ever-after in mind. Now Gage has to figure a way to let her down gently before she offs him in his sleep.A Tale From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson
13) I Am the Sea
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The tale of a man pushed to the brink of madness- for lovers of Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse 1870. Apprentice lighthouseman James Meakes joins two others at the remote offshore rock of Ripsaw Reef... as a replacement for a keeper whose death there remains unexplained.Meakes' suspicions grow as he accustoms himself to his new vertical world. He finds clues and obscure messages... is there a secret fourth occupant sharing the space,...
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Live the life of a pirate during the golden age of piracy!
It's 1715 and Spain rules the Caribbean. Young Abigail Margaret Mary Pennyworth isn't happy leaving her friends in England for the New World, but she has no say in where her missionary family goes as the Pennyworths set off for America.
Not long before the end of the three-month voyage, their merchant ship is captured by Spanish pirates, and Abby is separated from her family and...
15) Blacktip Island
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Inadvertent embezzler Blake Calloway high-tails it to the Caribbean, a step ahead of the Feds and desperate to restart life as an anonymous divemaster in a tropical paradise. On Blacktip Island, though, Blake quickly discovers "tropics" doesn't mean "paradise," and rookie boat hands stick out like a reef at low tide.The locals are quirky: a landlord who swears he's Fletcher Christian reincarnated, a boss who likes fish better than people, a sloshed...
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Trapped on shore, a captain fights desperately for a place on a ship Once, Marius believes, the world was wide and the sea was infinite. Adventure and profit awaited any man bold enough to step aboard a ship and cast his lot with the open ocean. But those days are gone. After a long and undistinguished career, Marius's reputation suffers an irreparable blow during the dark days of World War II when he refuses to go down with a sinking ship. It...
17) La Ruta Infinita
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El 10 de agosto de 1519 partía del sevillano muelle de las Mulas una flota compuesta por cinco naves (la Trinidad, la San Antonio, la Concepción, la Victoria y la Santiago) dirigida por el experimentado navegante portugués Fernando de Magallanes, que había tenido el empeño y la tenacidad de hacer realidad su proyecto para buscar un paso entre el Atlántico y el mar del Sur. Tras permanecer cuarenta días en la desembocadura del Guadalquivir,...
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Joseph Conrad's literary prowess reaches its zenith in "Lord Jim," an extraordinary novel that beckons readers into the turbulent seas of human morality, redemption, and the elusive quest for honor. Set against a backdrop of seafaring adventure and the exotic locales of the East, this masterpiece unfolds with a narrative cadence that echoes the ebb and flow of the tides, immersing readers in a story that transcends time.
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19) Beyond the Sea
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A novel from the 2023 Booker Prize winning author of Prophet Song
"Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful." --M John Harrison, The Guardian
The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive
Based partly on true events, Paul Lynch's haunting and sublime novel Beyond the Sea tells the story of two South American fishermen, Bolivar and Hector, who go to sea before a catastrophic storm....
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Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine and Richard Russo's Empire Falls.
Two women come to Maine in search of family, and find more love, heartbreak, and friendship, than they'd ever imagined one little fishing town could hold.
When Leah, a young New York reporter, meets Henry, she falls in love with everything...
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