Nautical & Marine Fiction

Das Wrack

Read by Karlsson


Friedrich Gerstäcker


Nördlich von Australien, um 1840. Während einer Reise von Sidney nach Singapur sichtet die Mannschaft des Segelschiffes Betsy Ann …

Captains Courageous

Read by Mark F. Smith


Rudyard Kipling


Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Glouce…

Heart of Darkness

Read by Kristin LeMoine


Joseph Conrad


Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and m…

Trafalgar

Read by Tux


Benito Pérez Galdós


Trafalgar, es el primero de los 46 Episodios Nacionales, escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós, que es considerado el mayor novelis…

An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

Read by Esther


Jules Verne


Edgar Allan Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len G…

Treasure Island (Version 4)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Robert Louis Stevenson


This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Read by Tom Crawford


Jack London


This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Lord Thomas Cochrane


This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…

In Search of the Castaways

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Jules Verne


The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself …

Stories of Ships and the Sea

Read by William Tomcho


Jack London


5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)

The U-boat Hunters

Read by William Tomcho


James Brendan Connolly


The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encoun…

The Atrocities of the Pirates

Read by James K. White


Aaron Smith


In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…

Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…

Typee

Read by Michael Scherer


Herman Melville


Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …

The Sea Hawk

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Rafael Sabatini


The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish …

The Riddle of the Sands

Read by Gesine


Erskine Childers


Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Read by Kristin LeMoine


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner'…

Treasure Island (version 5)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…

Der Chancellor

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Jules Verne


Der Chancellor ist eines von Jules Vernes ungewöhnlichsten Werken. Es erzählt vom Untergang eines Schiffes in Form eines Tagebuche…

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

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