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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a navel thriller set during a WWII German aerial attack on British forces (The Observer).
Crete, May 1941. Against all odds, Commander Nick Everard and his son, Jack, must survive a relentless Luftwaffe assault.
The situation is dire for British forces in the Mediterranean. Their ships, with no air cover, have to run the gauntlet of 2,000 German bombers; and can only lick their...
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Excerpt from THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A CHIEF MATE BY W. CLARK RUSSELL: "In the newspapers of 1876 appeared the following extracts from the log of a merchantman: "VOLCANIC ISLAND IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. -The ship Hercules, of Liverpool, lately arrived in the Mersey, reports as follows: March 23, in 2 deg. 12' north latitude, 33 deg. 27' west longitude, a shock of earthquake was felt, and shortly afterward a mass of land was hove up at a distance...
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Excerpt: "On Monday, August 8th, 1838, the large bark Ocean Ranger, of which I was second mate, was in latitude 38° 40' N., and longitude 11° W. The hour was four o'clock in the afternoon. I had come on deck to relieve the chief officer, who had had charge of the ship since twelve. It was a very heavy day-a sullen sky of gray vapor seeming to overhang our mastheads within pistol-shot of the trucks. From time to time there had stolen from the far...
84) Mv Sea Dragon
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Sea Devil Three continues where Sea Devil Two left off. The Sea Dragon continues to ply coastal ports with their marketing wares -- and making a huge profit. This, alone, tends to encourage the coastal pirates to kill the crew and take the ship with its riches. There are two attempts to take the Sea Dragon, which failed. The first occurred before the Sea Dragon went into Taiwan to pick up the relief force. The second occurred as the Sea Dragon accepted...
85) The Mariner
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In The Mariner Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in an enthralling fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi is lost at sea in a treacherous storm. In between fishing for seabream with two friends, the retired mariner looks back on how the sea has been calling him since childhood, on the punishing work of pearl-divers, and how he became a captain...
86) Matelot
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Extrait : "Un enfant habillé en ange, - c'est-à-dire demi-nu, avec une fine petite chemise et, aux épaules, les deux ailes d'un pigeon blanc... C'était au beau soleil d'un mois de juin méridional, dans l'extrême Provence confinant à l'Italie. Il marchait, à une procession de Fête-Dieu, en compagnie de trois autres en costume pareil. Les trois autres anges étaient blonds et cheminaient les yeux baissés, comme prenant au sérieux tout cela."...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this edited G. A. Henty collection:
"Under Drake's Flag" is the tale of the fight between the great empires of Spain and Britain for the supremacy on the seas and oceans. Tale is told from the perspective of a young boy who, along with a few friends, finds himself in the service of famous Francis Drake.
"Chapter of Adventures: Through the Bombardment of Alexandria" is tale of the young midshipman, Jack Robson, who works...
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«El viejo marinero se arremangó la camisa y empezó. Lo que querían era conocer una historia que, aunque no estaba escrita en las páginas de un libro, lo estaba en la piel de un hombre, y eso para él también era literatura.»
El beso de la aguja, tinta y sangre mezcladas para dar vida a una persona que ya no volvería a ser la misma. La magia del tatuaje, la perpetua marca de aquello que merece ser recordado. Veintitrés veces se sometió...
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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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"Expertly researched narrative abounds with fascinating lore . . . this flamboyant re-creation of the distant past . . . is another genre triumph." -Kirkus Reviews
When Norse raiders slaughtered his family and abducted his sister, Corban Loosestrife set out on an odyssey that took him across half the world, from the Viking fortress of Jorvik to the wild and desolate shores of Vinland in the New World. Now Corban struggles to make a new life alone...
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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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"A Season to Remember" is an exciting tale of great adventure and hardship - written with much imagination and experience. A wonderful trip with the author into a world far from the mundane. From nature in all its glory to nature in all its cruelness - the sea. Even though he believes he is searching for Doug, Timothy realizes he is searching for more than a friend. During that search, he faces a world of loneliness, raunchy, unsavory charactors and...
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 7
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Alan Lewrie is now commander of HMS Jester, an 18-gun sloop. Lewrie sails into Corsica only to receive astonishing orders: he must lure his archenemy, French commander Guillaume Choundas, into battle and personally strike the malevolent spymaster dead. With Horatio Nelson as his squadron commander on one hand and a luscious courtesan who spies for the French on the other, Lewrie must pull out all the stops if he's going to live up to his own reputation...
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Excerpt: "It was a brilliant afternoon. The sunshine in the water seemed to hover there like some flashful veil of silver, paling the azure so that it showed through it in a most delicate dye of cerulean faintness. The light breeze was abeam; yet the ship made a gale of her own that stormed past my ears in a continuous shrill hooting, and the wake roared away astern like the huddle of foaming waters at the foot of a high cataract. On the confines...
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Excerpt: "On the morning of October 21, in a year that one need not count very far back to arrive at, I was awakened from a light sleep into which I had fallen after a somewhat restless night by a sound as of thunder some little distance off, and on going to my bedroom window to take a view of the weather I beheld so wild and forbidding a prospect of sea and sky that the like of it is not to be imagined. The heavens were a dark, stooping, universal...
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April 14th 2012: A fleet of ships have gathered in the North Atlantic to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the most famous maritime disaster of all history.
Suddenly, a pulse of light engulfs several of the ships, who find themselves on an open ocean dotted with icebergs. Desperately trying to make contact with the outside world, they detect no satellite or radio signals, except for a single vessel just off to the north, who is sending out messages...
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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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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.
99) Sea Change
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Chris Bowen is the star quarterback at his high school and is attracting interest from college scouts. He dreams of playing in the NFL but can be indecisive in crucial moments during a game. After taking a vicious hit to his head, he begins to have hallucinations of a 19th-century whaling ship and thinks he's going crazy. Afraid of losing scouting interest and jeopardizing his future, he doesn't tell anyone. His mental state worsens when a ghost,...
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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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