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Excerpt from THE SMUGGLERS OF THE CLONE BY S. R. CROCKETT: "'Rise, Robin, rise! The partans are on the sands!' The crying at our little window raised me out of a sound sleep, for I had been out seeing the Myreside lasses late the night before, and was far from being wake-rife at two by the clock on a February morning. It was the first time the summons had come to me, for I was then but young. Hitherto it was my brother John who had answered the raising...
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He demonstrates another side of his extraordinary storytelling talents with Scoundrel, a contemporary tale of excitement and danger on high and treacherous seas. A gripping tale of an outlaw yacht captain who decides to cross the Irish Republican Army for a $5 million payday only to find himself pursued by intelligence agents, terrorists, and killers across perilous open waters, Scoundrel is a masterful thriller in the Tom Clancy vein-a masterwork...
83) The Vandals
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Twilight falls as the hardy crew of sea adventurers approaches the abandoned island. Don't call them pirates. They're vandals. Taking advantage of lost loot in unexpected places. This island is deserted. Once occupied by a lord and his family, it's now empty. But what riches might the lord have left behind?
Riches...or nightmares.
Baldric and his crew are sailing in to find out.
A thrilling sea adventure by Kala M. Light explores the ever-present...
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Marine science fiction
The adventure centers its story on Lara and Julio, a newly married couple seeking to escape the burden of technology and the massiveness of modern life, who embarks in Ushuaia on a so-called "barefoot cruise" in the year 2213 to Cape Horns and on a themed voyage set in 1933, to an adventure honeymoon on an old historical wooden schooner launched that same year called Destino. In it, together with Álvaro, a brave and particular...
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Locked in a place beyond time, only the truth can set Titanic's Master free. Haunted by his final voyage, Captain Smith's spirit relives his past: the ships he sailed, the women he loved, his rise from obscurity to become one of the world's finest mariners. A lucky man: until time and coincidence turn against him. The seas are calm, but other forces are at work. Fire threatens from below and ice lies ahead. Amongst the passengers, WT Stead – journalist...
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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...
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A tale of intrigue, deceit an villainy set on the rugged coast of Cornwall. It is also a story of a father's love for his daughter who is swept off her feet by an audacious and handsome ship's captain. The story is set against the days of smugglers, Revenue men, pirates and sailing ships. With a red-herring or two thrown in for good measure, this is one of W. Clark Russell's best short stories. (Amazon)
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In the Crystal Caves, hidden far beneath Antarctica, lives an ancient being. Medusa is the last of her kind who escaped from our sister planet, Terralius, before its apocalyptic implosion eons ago. She has seen what unfolds when all warnings of global catastrophe are ignored.
After Fleur, estranged daughter of a prominent world leader, is saved from drowning by a massive, green turtle named Midas, they embark on a perilous quest to save the Earth....
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Captain Gray, Captain Wittman, Captain Perkins is a compilation of three books, each detailing the individual experiences of a master seaman. Taking place during the late 19th century, each story is a historically sound and riveting look at the sea-going adventures of a fascinating man. Combining history, adventure and drama, Captain Gray, Captain Wittman, Captain Perkins is a must-read for anyone with an interest in maritime fiction.
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A Nicholas Fallon Sea Novel.
The night turned prematurely dark as the storm seemed to suck the light out of the day. Captain Nicholas Fallon and his crew aboard the British Privateer Rascal stood to the monstrous seas hour after hour, their minds numb and their bodies bloodied from the fight.
Suddenly, a light.
Only the remarkable seamanship of Rascal's indomitable first mate Beatrice McFarland can save a simple cod fisherman who brings aboard...
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In this warm, lively account of living on and by the sea, Sarah Drummond writes of life as an apprentice fisherwoman. Through her firsthand experience with small-scale commercial fishing in the Great Southern, Drummond documents a way of life-fishing-that is slowly dying as waters become politicized and fished out. She writes of fishing, of feuds, and of all the fish that got away. Salt Story is a tribute to sea-dogs, fisherwomen, oystermen, and storytellers...
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The following chapters and sailing stories are an amalgamation of some research, of this author's personal experiences, and embellished by my extrapolated imagination feeding off my life experiences. Where truth ends and imagination takes over is up to the reader to determine. However, this book is mostly fiction. Some of the characters in the stories are real, but under advice I have changed names and made them fit the venue into which they are placed....
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Excerpt: "I told my story, and the three fellows listened attentively. Their eyes glowed in the lamplight as they stared at me. The weak wind raised a pleasant buzzing noise at the cutwater, and the lugger stole in floating launches through the gloom over the long invisible heave of the Atlantic swell. 'Ah!' said the helmsman, when I had made an end, 'we heerd of that there Tintrenale lifeboat job when we was at Penzance. An' so you was her coxswain?'...
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On Christmas Eve, 1972, the commercial fishing vessel, LADY-FAME was struck and capsized by a fifty foot rogue wave while crossing the Humboldt Bay bar. Contemporary artist, Peter Santino was a crew member and wrote fifty thousand words during the months following, describing every thought and action that occurred, with no embellishment or clever trickery in a attempt to create a record of Truth. Now, some forty years later, and after re-reading Moby-Dick,...
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An old man accosts a middle-aged vacationer on a remote South Pacific island and leads him to a luxurious mansion on top of a hill. Once there, he reveals that it was owned by the writer who was the inspiration for Jack London's masterpiece Martin Eden. London's novel ends tragically, but according to the old man, the real Martin Eden lived on and had many further adventures.
96) Tears of the Sea
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When LeRae indulges her fascination with the forbidden sand walkers, she discovers more than danger in the shallow waters.
Pressured by her family and friends to stay in the safety of the deep ocean, LeRae longs to explore the beauty of the shallow waters...and the mysterious people who live on the beach. One day, when danger threatens the safety of the sand walkers she has come to care for, LeRae must decide if she will listen to tradition or forge...
97) Squid!
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Driven ashore by hunger, a female giant squid brings terror to a remote Scottish fishing village. Back in the sea she meets Jamie, a young diver enthralled by the water, who sparks a primal reaction. But does she need a meal or a mate? Tensions rise as the community struggles to understand and deal with a mystery, a threat and a cold-hearted attempt to kill or capture the creature. In a battle for survival, justice and the environment, Jamie, aided...
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Mentionné par Claudio Magris dans "Danube", "Europolis", le roman de Jean Bart, pseudonyme d'Eugeniu Botez, constitue une évocation sans équivalent du petit port cosmopolite de Sulina au début du vingtième siècle, à l'époque de la Commission européenne du Danube. Parabole sur la différence autant que récit d'aventure, il couronne l'œuvre d'un personnage de la littérature roumaine, à la fois écrivain et capitaine de navire et demeure...
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The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea." It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell's best selling and most well known novel. Russell noted in a preface, the novel 'found its first...
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This illustrated edition of "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" includes:
Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.
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