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Excerpt: ""Mr. Maxwell Kane!" The announcement was made by Nick Carter's valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his master's study with a gesture as nearly approaching a flourish as any in which he ever permitted himself to indulge. Joseph had a wholesome respect for millionaires, and many a one of them came at one time and another to the detective for consultation; but it was rarely that Joseph admitted such a one as Maxwell Kane. It was a name...
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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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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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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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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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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...
90) Ellos
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Es una edad en la que está perdida. No es posible recordar con claros trazos cronológicos, sobre todo cuando regresa a ese tiempo donde se interna en el laberinto del que no tiene afán de salir. Cualquier vuelta, cualquier curva, sigue siendo el centro.
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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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Sinnliche Geschichten für heiße Tage und laue Nächte. Perfekt für den Sommer.
Inhalt:
-Das Haus am See
-Kirschrote Sünde
-Sweet Temptation
-Liebe auf Fuerteventura
-Hot Summer Love
-Schmetterlinge auf Hawaii
-Sommernachtküsse auf der Dachterrasse
-Auszeit am Meer
Diese Veröffentlichung enthält überarbeitete Geschichten und
Gedichte aus der Seasons Reihe (ehem. Buch Summer Lovestories)
sowie auch neue Schriftwerke.
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Excerpt: "In the year 1851 there dwelt on the banks of the river Thames a retired tailor, whom I will call John Sloper, out of regard to the feelings of his posterity, if such there be. This man had for many years carried on a flourishing trade in the east end of London. Having got together as much money as he might suppose would supply his daily needs, he built himself a villa near the pleasant little town of Erith. His house overlooked the water;...
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"[A] page-turner…. Cornwell unleashes danger and violence, from both man and nature. "-Atlanta Journal-Constitution"Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller. "-Orlando SentinelThe New York Times bestselling author of The Fort, the Saxon Tales, and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has been called, "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels...
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This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Content:
Randall Parrish:
Wolves of the Sea
Charles Boardman Hawes:
The Dark Frigate
The Mutineers
Rafael Sabatini:
Captain Blood
The Sea-Hawk
Captain Charles Johnson:
The History of Pirates
R. L. Stevenson:
Treasure Island
Jack London:
The Sea Wolf
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
A Son of the Sun
Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Crusoe
Captain Singleton
Tobias...
97) The Last Hit
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A group of pirates, a crew impossible of our days and our seas, take part on an operation in the mid of Mediterranean. A mysterious character seemed calculated all good while police, coasters guards and anti-drugs departments are ready to stop these criminals traffics active since much time. The story, covered by a sad humor, is heavy and with deads. Anyway, the real trophy is unknown yet.
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Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire...
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
100) Siempre el norte
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Mikel Larramendi tiene 27 años y es de Hondarribia, una pequeña población de Guipúzcoa, antaño eminentemente pesquera, de la que siempre ha renegado. Ha terminado recientemente su doctorado sobre la ballena de los vascos, tras sus estudios en Ciencias del Mar, y es reclutado como parte de una expedición científica que partirá de Terranova hasta el Ártico canadiense. El fin de dicho viaje es estudiar la influencia del deshielo en el desplazamiento...
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