 | SSN
Release Date: February 1, 2000The "forgotten Clancy novel," SSN is a complete submarine warfare novel with maps, photos, and a special interview with Tom Clancy and former submarine commander Doug Littlejohns ...
 |  | Ramage & the Freebooters (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 3)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 3) The lieutenant is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig, Triton. But like the rest of the Navy, Triton's crew has mutinied. Sympathizing with some of their complaints, Ramage also knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz, and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat. ...
|  | Ramage & the Renegades (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 12)
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 12) Nelson's crews are standing down and Ramage is on leave when he receives secret Admiralty orders to inspect the small island of Trinidade off the coast of Brazil. Reaching the island, Ramage and the crew of the Calypso fetch up in a battle to free several captive merchant ships—and a beautiful woman passenger—as they cross swords with blood-thirsty priates. ...
|  | The Discovery of Slowness
Publication Date: May 1, 2005The Discovery of Slowness--a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's master piece--recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).Through the author's acute reading of history and his marvelous storytelling prowess, the reader follows John Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Slow and deliberate from boyhood, Franklin appeared destined to be a misfit. But he escaped f...
|  | Hemingway on Fishing
Release Date: October 22, 2002From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he did -- from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream.In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a café in Paris and writing about what he knew best -- and when it came time to stop, ...
|  | The Oxford Book of the Sea (Oxford Books of Prose)
Publication Date: March 21, 2002| Series: Oxford Books of Prose The sea has served as a source of inspiration for writers throughout the ages.Now, in The Oxford Book of the Sea, bestselling author Jonathan Raban has compiled a remarkable anthology of our changing visions of the sea, a rich treasury of writings as varied and enthralling as the ocean itself.Arranged chronologically, and spanning everything from Anglo-Saxon poetry to modern oceanography, these excerpts capture the work of poets, novelists, scientists, and explorers.We read pieces from Samuel Eliot Morison, James Boswell, Charle...
|  | Pitcairn's Island: A Novel
Publication Date: July 14, 2003MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile voyage remains one of the greatest feats of courage and adventure in the annals of the sea. PITCAIRN's ISLAND unfolds a tale of drunkeness, betrayal, murder, and vengeance as it chronicles the fate of Christian, the mutineers, and a handful of Tahitians, who together take refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific. ...
|  | Benito Cereno (The Art of the Novella)
Release Date: May 1, 2006| Series: The Art of the Novella "What has cast such a shadow upon you?""The Negro."With its intense mix of mystery, adventure,and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative examplefrom the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of thesea. However, most Melville scholars consider it his most sophisticated work, andmany, such as novelist Ralph Ellison, have hailed it as the most piercing look atslavery in all of American literature.Based on a real life incident—the characternames remain unchanged—Benito...
|  | Blown off Course (John Pearce 7)
Publication Date: December 14, 2011| Series: John Pearce (Book 7) Lieutenant John Pearce is in London seeking protection for his friends, the Pelicans, from a reluctant Admiralty, unaware that they have been turfed off the ship on which he left them in safety. Sitting in the tavern where he and the Pelicans were first press ganged, Pearce considers his future. Lacking funds, an occupation if he leaves naval service, or the evidence of perjury he once had to bring to justice Captain Ralph Barclay, the brute who pressed he and his companions into the Navy, his prospects are not promising. Ralp...
|  | An Affair of Honor (Honor Series) (The Honor Series)
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| Series: The Honor Series (Book 5) At the beginning of this fifth novel in Robert N. Macomber's award-winning Honor Series, it's December 1873 and Lieutenant Peter Wake is the executive officer of the USS Omaha on dreary patrol in the West Indies. Lonely for his family, he is looking forward to returning home to Pensacola in a few months and rekindling his troubled marriage with Linda.But fate has other plans for Wake. He runs afoul of the Royal Navy in Antigua and a beautiful French woman enters his life in Martinique. Then he's suddenly sent off on staf...
|  | A King's Cutter (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics)
Publication Date: February 1, 2001| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic (Book 2) In 1792, Nathaniel Drinkwater returns to the Royal Navy with an appointment to the twelve-gun cutter KESTREL, commanded by the inscrutable Madoc Griffiths. Beneath the gathering shadow of the French Revolution, he undertakes dangerous secret operations off the coast of France, including the rescue of emigres and the landing of agents.As Europe plunges deeper into war, KESTREL participates in the struggle for the Channel, and Drinkwater encounters the devious and sinister Edouard Santhonax, who is attracting...
|  | Ramage's Devil (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 13)
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 13) Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just hours before hostilities commence, Ramage and his bride elude the grasp of Napoleon's secret police. ...
|  | Sacred Stone (Oregon Files (Paperback))
Publication Date: October 5, 2004Clive Cussler debuted his new series, The Oregon Files, with the incredible adventure of Golden Buddha. Now he follows that triumph with Sacred Stone, a rollicking new tale featuring the enigmatic captain of The Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. In the remote wastelands of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his network of spies known as The Corporation must fight to protect the stone ...
|  | The Whale Road
Release Date: August 21, 2007A band of brothers, committed only to each other, rides the waves, fighting for the highest bidder, treading the whale road in search of legendary relics.Life is savage aboard a Viking raiding ship. When Orm Rurikson is plucked from the snows of Norway to brave the seas on the Fjord Elk, he becomes an unlikely member of the notorious crew. Although young, Orm must quickly become a warrior if he is to survive.His fellow crew are the Oathsworn---named after the spoken bond that ties them in brotherhood. They fight hard, they drink hard, and they always defend their...
|  | The Flying Squadron (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic (Book 11) While desperate to stem the encroaching tide of Napoleon's French Empire in Europe, the British government in 1811 is equally anxious to avert war with the emerging power of the United States. Yet the Americans, who have their own ambitions in Canada and in trade with France, are becoming increasingly outraged at the forcible boarding and searching of their ships by British naval officers. <P>In this tense atmosphere of international acrimony, Capt. Nathaniel Drinkwater is ordered to the Chesapeake ...
|  | Ramage's Signal (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 11)
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 11) The Calypso and her captain, Lord Nicholas Ramage, venture further into the French-dominated waters of the Mediterranean on an Admiralty mission to sink, burn, and destroy. Aiming to confuse and distract the enemy, Ramage and his men find themselves isolated and outnumbered as they take on the might of Napoleon's fleet. ...
|  | The Sand Pebbles
Publication Date: June 1, 2000A gripping novel of adventure set in China in the 1920s. ...
|  | The Guernseyman (The Richard Delancey Novels) (Volume 1)
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Series: The Richard Delancey Novels (Book 1) Richard Delancey, inadvertently embroiled in Liverpool labor riots, sidesteps punishment by "volunteering" for the Navy. Ranked as a midshipman, he is no sooner aboard than his ship sails for the port of New York. But when the events of the American Revolution and the ongoing hostilities between England and France send him back across the sea, Delancey finds himself instrumental in defending the Isle of Jersey and, later, the Rock of Gibraltar. ...
|  | The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 3
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson The third of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction.Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction.Introduction by Jeremy LassenThe Ghost Pirates The Silent Ship: (aka The Phantom Ship, aka The Silent Ship Tells How Jessop Was Picked Up)Stories of the Sea:* A Tropical Horror * The Voice in the Night * The Shamraken' Homeward-Bounder (aka Homeward Bound) * Out of the Storm * Albatross, The * In the Wailing Gully * 'Prentices M...
|  | An Ill Wind (John Pearce)
Publication Date: December 14, 2010| Series: John Pearce 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home to freedom and intent on putting the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But in the confusion of the evacuation of Toulon, as citizens try to flee the Republican Army and the guillotine, Pearce must keep his wits about him in order to survive. Through unfortunate circumstances, Pearce finds himself on a ship back to England with Captain Barclay and his lovely wife Emily. In the end, the Pelicans may think they have reached the end of their troubles but it is Emily Barclay who...
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