Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Pirates Own Book
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some of history's most notorious sea robbers. This coll…
The Three Midshipmen
This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at …
The Phantom Death
This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part s…
The Sailor's Word-book
An encyclopaedia (a digest, the author calls it) of nautical terms and other words relevant to navigation, the character of seafarers, fish …
A Voyage to the South Sea
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…
The Sea-Witch
The Sea-Witch by Maturin Murray Ballou invites listeners into a world of adventure and romance on the high seas. This nautical tale follows …
In Search of Mademoiselle
Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts…
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition
This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of …
Labrador Days
Dive deep into the heart of the Labrador Sea, sharing the rugged lives of fishermen and their indomitable spirit. Wilfred Grenfell, a doctor…
The Ocean Waifs
"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …
The Young Ice Whalers
Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…
Moby Dick
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …
A Marriage at Sea
Herbert Barclay is desperately in love with Grace Bellassys, but a number of factors stand in the way of their happiness, the biggest of whi…
Nigger of the Narcissus
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…
Moonraker
Young Jackie runs away to sea and before long his ship is captured by pirates. Now sailing with the Moonraker and its captain, Jacky reaches…
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined ent…
Nostromo
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …
Wappin' Wharf
We had hoped that our drama's scene might lie on a pirate ship at sea. We had wished for a swaying mast, full-set with canvas—a typhoon to s…
The Merry Anne
This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…
The Sailor's Word-book
An encyclopaedia (a digest, the author calls it) of nautical terms and other words relevant to navigation, the character of seamen, this boo…