Seafaring Adventures!

Updated May 29, 2025
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The bone ships
Barker, R. J. (Fiction author)
Paper Book
"Excellent. One of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I've seen in years." --Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new series...
The devil and the dark water
Turton, Stuart
Paper Book
PEOPLE's Best Books of the 2020s "Compulsively readable."--New York Times Book Review From Stuart Turton, author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, comes an extraordinary new locked-room murder mystery. A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who...
Icebound : shipwrecked at the edge of the world
Pitzer, Andrea
Paper Book
In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides's In the Kingdom of Ice, a "gripping adventure tale" (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents' three harrowing Arctic expeditions--the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...
Before the wind : the memoir of an American sea captain, 1808-1833
Tyng, Charles
Paper Book
Ship of magic
Hobb, Robin.
Paper Book
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships-rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the...
The Bounty : the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty
Alexander, Caroline
Paper Book
More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the...
The Bounty : the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty
Alexander, Caroline
Paper Book
New York Times Bestselling Author Just before sunrise on the morning of April 18, 1789, in the far reaches of the south pacific, Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and three other men, armed with cutlasses, bayonets and a musket, apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen...
Mutiny on the Bounty
Lloyd, Frank
DVD
Based on the true story of sadistic Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian, their turbulent journey aboard the HMS Bounty, and the subsequent mutiny in 1788.
The Mayflower
Kate Caffrey
Paper Book
The story of the New England whalers
Stein, R. Conrad.
Paper Book
The American Health Care System is pushing the American consumer right over the edge. While we have excellent medical professionals, the â?systemâ? itself is incredibly complicated, disjointed and confusing. And finding a way to somehow pay for it, even with insurance, has become a national disgrace...
20,000 Leagues under the Sea, with EBook
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Originally published in 1870, Verne's amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the ocean's waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine, The Nautilus. It's a...
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Originally published in 1870, Verne's amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the ocean's waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine, The Nautilus. It's a...
The extraordinary journeys : twenty thousand leagues under the seas
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Originally published in 1870, Verne's amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the ocean's waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine, The Nautilus. It's a...
20,000 leagues under the sea
Disney, Walt
DVD
Captain Nemo wages war on the surface world from his submarine while a shipwrecked sailor and a scientist try to foil his plans.
The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi : a novel
Chakraborty, S. A.
Paper Book
"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised-Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War "An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina's...
Pirate latitudes
Crichton, Michael
Audiobook
The Caribbean, 1665. Port Royal, Jamaica is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. For Captain Charles Hunter, there's a living to be made, and gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking.Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad is awaiting repairs in a nearby, heavily...
Pirate latitudes
Crichton, Michael
Paper Book
"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -...
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
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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 Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Grann, David
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager...
The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Grann, David
CD
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager...
The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Grann, David
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager...
Seafire
Parker, Natalie C.
Paper Book
A warlord killed Caledonia's parents and kidnapped her brother. Now, on the deadly Bullet seas, Captain Caledonia Styx and her all-female crew are ready for revenge. "This is Mad Max by way of Davy Jones, a high-energy, breathless adventure [about] a group of damaged...
Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman
Paper Book
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville's great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul, featuring the timeless characters Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg, and presented here in a beautiful Everyman's Library hardcover edition. A giant of American literature, Melville is justly...
Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman
CD
One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of...
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
Paper Book
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
Audiobook
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance....
Moby Dick
Peck, Gregory
DVD
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab hunts the white whale that got his leg. Directed by John Huston.
In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
Paper Book
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of...
In the heart of the sea [the tragedy of the whaleship Essex]
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
Paper Book
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of...
The price of redemption
Carpenter, Shawn
Paper Book
A debut swashbuckling fantasy following a powerful sorceress, the Marquese Enid d'Tancreville, as she is forced on the run where she meets a vast cast of characters including a young sea captain who has need of a sea mage. Perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Naomi Novik, and Brian McClellan....
Madhouse at the end of the Earth : the Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night
Sancton, Julian
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter ...
Under the black flag : the romance and the reality of life among the pirates
Cordingly, David.
Paper Book
"This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read." -- Patrick O'Brian Pirates are so much a part of legend that it is easy to forget they actually existed. UNDER THE BLACK FLAG tells their story in a rollicking account of the...
The bloody black flag : a Spider John mystery
Goble, Steve
Paper Book
Agatha Christie meets Patrick O'Brian in the first book in a new series of swashbuckling historical mysteries featuring Spider John Rush, a most reluctant pirate. 1722-aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd...

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