A Book that Features Pirates, Sailors, or Fishermen

A selection of titles that fulfill the criteria for the UBN2025 category of a book that features pirates, sailors, or fisherman.

Updated January 4, 2025
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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Hold on tight as Captain Nemo takes you on a perilous journey deep beneath the ocean waves, into the incredible underwater world where lives the crew of the mighty submarine the Nautilus. When Nemo captures Professor Arronax; his servant, Conseil; and the harpoonist Ned Land, the prisoners join...
Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman
Paper Book
First time in Large Print. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville set out to write "a mighty book" on "a mighty theme." In one of the world's greatest adventure stories, a crew of whalers sets out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the...
Pirate latitudes a novel
Crichton, Michael
Paper Book
"Crichton's ultimate adventure." --San Francisco Chronicle   "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." --USA Today   "Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by....
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
The epic tale of a young man's quest to capture a hidden treasure on the open seas -- one of the best-loved adventure stories of all time. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives readers important background information - A chronology of the author...
The river : a novel
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars comes the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. "A fiery tour de force ... I could not put this book down. It...
Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage
Lansing, Alfred.
Audiobook
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship...
The old man and the sea
Hemingway, Ernest
Paper Book
A Scribner Classics Edition Told in his famed powerful and minimalist prose, this story of courage and personal triumph remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in...
Daughter of the pirate king
Levenseller, Tricia.
Paper Book
There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map--the key to a legendary treasure trove--seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her...
Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea
Callahan, Steven
Audiobook
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is now an...
In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of...

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