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The final unfinished voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey-maturin Ser.)
By Patrick O'Brian. 2005
An incomplete, final installment of the Aubrey/Maturin seafaring adventure series features three printed chapters and a facsimile of the manuscript,…
which includes details about Jack Aubrey's post-promotion mission to the South Africa station and a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer. Some strong language. 2005.Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Richard Sharpe ; #4)
By Bernard Cornwell. 2000
It is 1805 and Sharpe is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. His voyage home…
should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends - until an unlikely ally secures his escape onto a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. Sequel to "Sharpe's fortress" (DC28409). 2000. (Richard Sharpe ; 4)In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old…
Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2003.Night watch
By Kevin Armstrong. 2002
Short stories set in the Pacific islands, detailing the shift between sea and land, indigenous cultures and the Western seafaring…
world. Each story unveils protagonists who err in their search for self and home. "The cane field" uncovers the myriad ways a mother's love can be destroyed by political and cultural clashes; "The woman of his choice" depicts Faero, a young Waro Indian caught between the world he knows and the woman he desires. Some strong language. 2002.Desolation island (Jack Aubrey ; #5)
By Patrick O'Brian. 1978
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the…
Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. Sequel to "Mauritius command" . Followed by "The fortune of war" .1998. (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels ; 5)The stowaway
By Robert Hough. 2004
Aboard a container ship, three stowaways are put out in flimsy rafts by captain's orders as they are discovered. When…
a fourth stowaway is discovered by one crew member, he decides to protect the man from a similar fate and instead feeds him and keeps him hidden, endangering his own life and the lives of those who help him. 2004.The mariner's curse
By John Lunn. 2004
Twelve-year-old Rory Dugan has always been captivated by the sea and ships. Then he gets the chance to sail on…
a ship, when his mother and her new husband invite him along when they cross the ocean on a luxury liner. But his excitement soon disappears when he encounters the mysterious Mr. Morgan. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2004The Mediterranean caper (Dirk Pitt Adventure Ser. #1)
By Clive Cussler. 2004
A Luftwaffe ace, a Nazi war criminal, a beautiful and untrustworthy brunette, and a deadly billion-dollar cargo become the objects…
of a desperate search as Dirk Pitt matches wits with the elusive leader of an international smuggling ring. 2004.White death: a novel from the NUMA files (Kurt Austin adventures. #No. 4)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2003
Partners Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) rescue survivors inside a Danish ship…
sunk by environmentalists. During the ensuing investigation they encounter the Oceanus Corporation, which aims to control the seas by using biologically modified fish. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2003. (Kurt Austin adventure)The smugglers (High seas trilogy. #2.)
By Iain Lawrence. 1999
Set in eighteenth-century England, sixteen-year-old John sets out on his father's schooner to sail from Kent to London. The schooner…
was a smugglers' vessel once, and a mysterious gentleman has warned him that it will bring trouble and death. But the ship looks clever and quick, and John is too charmed by it to heed the advice. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The wreckers." Followed by "The buccaneers." 1999.Birds of prey (The Courtneys of Africa #9)
By Wilbur A Smith. 1997
It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and…
his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold. Followed by "Monsoon" (EB69211). (The Courtneys of Africa: prequel ; 1)The old man and the sea
By Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.Battlecruiser (Modern naval fiction library)
By Douglas Reeman. 1997
In 1943, when Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins HMS "Reliant", he knows he may be her last captain. Most other battlecruisers…
have been destroyed. But "Reliant" is both legend and survivor and as Britain prepares to invade occupied Europe she must enter the conflagration. Sherbrooke cannot alter the bitter truth: that, for one of her ill-fated class, there can be no half-measures. Only death or glory awaits HMS "Reliant".The cruel sea
By Nicholas Monsarrat. 1955