Category Archives: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig’
Author(s): William Hope Hodgson Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird...
The Frozen Pirate
Author(s): William Clark Russell Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of...
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
Author(s): Thomas Wentworth Higginson The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon,...
The Ghost Ship
Nautical fiction at the close of the nineteenth century frequently balanced strict maritime realism with...
The Fearsome Island
Author(s): Albert Kinross No ordinary sailor’s tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of...
Typhoon (version 2)
Author(s): Joseph Conrad A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the...
Up the River
Author(s): Oliver Optic Up the River is the sixth and last of “The Great Western...
Treasure Island (Version 4)
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who...
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Author(s): Herman Melville This is a tale based on Melville’s experiences aboard the USS United...
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)
Few adventure novels have shaped modern mythologies of piracy like Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic 1883...
Typee
Author(s): Herman Melville Typee is Herman Melville’s first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped...
Typhoon
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and...
The Skipper’s Wooing
Author(s): W. W. Jacobs The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to...
The Sea Hawk
Author(s): Rafael Sabatini The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in...
The Three Lieutenants
Author(s): William Henry Giles Kingston A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence,...
The Shadow-Line
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Dedicated to the author’s son who was wounded in World War 1,...
The Trawler
Author(s): James Brendan Connolly The Trawler is a short story revolving around the trying life...
The Sea Wolf – Version 2
Author(s): Jack London The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack...
The Secret Sharer
Author(s): Joseph Conrad A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to...
The Young Ice Whalers
Author(s): Winthrop Packard Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as...
The Three Midshipmen
Author(s): William Henry Giles Kingston This is the start of a series of four books...
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
Author(s): Harry Collingwood Eric Blackburn’s strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is...
The Wreck of the Corsaire
Author(s): William Clark Russell This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Author(s): Charles Dickens A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round...
The Pearl of Orr’s Island
Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse...
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Author(s): Joseph Conrad This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship...
The Moorland Cottage
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell “Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her...
The Phantom Death and Other Stories
Author(s): William Clark Russell This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories...
The Odyssey
Author(s): Homer The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the...
The Isle of Dead Ships
Author(s): Crittenden Marriott There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has...