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
Author(s): John C. Hutcheson This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as...
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)
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson When a rough old seaman calling himself “the Captain” appears at...
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...