Category Archives: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton
Author(s): Daniel Defoe The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a...
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters
Long before modern naval fiction established its foothold in popular culture, Captain Frederick Marryat drew...
The Rover
Author(s): Joseph Conrad This is Joseph Conrad’s last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native...
The Frozen Deep
Author(s): Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara,...
The Copper Princess
Author(s): Kirk Munroe The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure...
The Ebb-Tide
Author(s): Robert Louis StevensonLloyd Osbourne Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to...
The Beach of Dreams
Author(s): H. De Vere Stacpoole Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers...
The Black Buccaneer
Author(s): Stephen W. Meader Two teen boys are kidnapped by pirates along the Atlantic coast...
The Frozen Pirate (version 2)
Author(s): William Clark Russell Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives...
The Ice Queen
Author(s): Ernest Ingersoll When four young people decide to undertake a skating trek across the...
The Cruise of the Esmeralda
Author(s): Harry Collingwood After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left...
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole
Author(s): Jules Verne The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by...
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice
Author(s): Jules Verne The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by...
Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable
Author(s): Lucy AikinJohann David WyssJohann Rudolf Wyss All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of...
Sea Stories
Few landscapes evoke the terrifying grandeur of human insignificance quite like the open ocean, an...
Moonraker
Author(s): F. Tennyson Jesse Young Jackie runs away to sea and before long his ship...
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 3
Author(s): William Clark Russell Volume 3 continues the story of Hugh Tregarthen and Helga Nielsen...
Robinson Crusoe (version 2)
Author(s): Daniel Defoe Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for...
Man Overboard
Author(s): Francis Marion Crawford Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night...
Redburn: His First Voyage
Author(s): Herman Melville Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the...
Off the Rocks: Stories of the Deep-Sea Fisherfolk of Labrador
Author(s): Sir Wilfred Grenfell William Grenfell was sent to Newfoundland by the Royal National Mission...
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
Author(s): Herman Melville Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville’s...
Nostromo
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the...
Mardi Vol. 1
Author(s): Herman Melville “Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific,...
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Author(s): Frederick Marryat One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY...
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1
Author(s): William Clark Russell Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family,...
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship “Pirate”
Author(s): Thornton Jenkins Hains This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper...
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship ‘Pirate’
Author(s): Thornton Jenkins Hains This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper...
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 2
Author(s): William Clark Russell Volume 2 begins as our hero winds up his story. But...
Moby Dick, or the Whale
Author(s): Herman Melville Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique...