His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Horatio Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, look set to take on...
Sea stories
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Author:C. S. ForesterSummary: -
Author:POPE, DudleySummary:In this exciting adventure Capt. Ramage RN must rescue a mixed group of people being held hostage by Napoleon amongst whom he hopes to find his wife.
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Author:POPE, DudleySummary:Young Capt. Ramage, recently married, hopes to settle down for few quiet months with his new wife but Nelson asks for him by name and soon he is caught up on the great battle of Trafalgar.
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Author:POPE, DudleySummary:Capt. Ramage and the crew of the frigate 'Calypso' engage French battleships and Barbary Coast pirates in this swashbuckling novel of the high seas.
- Author:ROBINSON, PatrickSummary:
In 2002 the Nimitz class carrier USS Thomas Jefferson and her crew of 6000, disappear from radar screens.
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Author:Melville, HermanSummary:One of the funniest and strangest narrators in literature goes to sea with a maniacal captain on a doomed whaling voyage. Ishmael’s rollicking digressions on everything from whaling to philosophy may have put you off in high school, but...
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Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
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Sixteen-year-old Pi's father owns a zoo in India, until the family decides to immigrate to Canada. On the way tragedy strikes and the ship sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a tiger and an orangutan. He...
- Author:Nathalie BessonSummary:
À Catane, les chats marins s'ennuient de naviguer, à cause des déprédations des Turcs. Arrive Miaoumé, avec le corsaire Félix, pour recruter un équipage de chats afin de semer la terreur chez les Turcs. Les volontaires apprennent à...
- Author:Paddon, DaveSummary:
The fish aren't biting, so Kimmy and Mike head off to see if they'll have luck on the other side of the ocean. En route they encounter a hurricane, a giant squid, pirates, a merman, an iceberg and much more. Theirs is a round-...
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Author:Anthony, ShiraSummary:Since learning of his merman shifter heritage, Taren has begun building a life with Ian Dunaidh among the mainland Ea. But memories of his past life still haunt him, and as the threat of war with the hostile island merfolk looms ever...
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Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession... After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act...
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Author:O'Brian, PatrickSummary:Captain Jack Aubrey takes command of the aged frigate H.M.S. Surprise, and is sent to Cambodia (stopping in India) to deliver the new British envoy to the Sultan of Kampong. Book Three in the series.
- Author:COWLEY, JoySummary:
Flea, Pete and Libby think they're the luckiest kids on earth when the family goes sailing around the Marlborough Sounds for a year. Will their new life at sea be full of dolphins and great fishing or will cramped spaces,...
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Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the Terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.
- Author:MACDONNELL, J. ESummary:
The author tells of his own experiences aboard 'H.M.A.S. Nepal' in 1944 and the actions in which he was involved. He wrote this book (during breaks in engagements) in the same style as his excellent naval fiction.
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Author:C. S. ForesterSummary:The final three stories of Forester's early 19th century British naval hero. In "Lord Hornblower", the English fleet battles to retain Le Havre, its only foothold in Napoleon's France.
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We meet Jim Brady as a Lieutenant Commander, commanding Circe, a destroyer on a war footing. The rapidity of his promotion, however well-deserved, brings its own problems, and Brady remains far too conscious of the fact that he has...
- Author:O'BRIAN, PatrickSummary:
Jack Aubrey and his friend, the Doctor, set sail for Chile and are involved in the battle for independence from Spain.
- Author:LLEWELLYN, SamSummary:
Former journalist Bill Tyrrell charters his yacht to a charitable organisation which takes juveniles out of prison and out onto the sea. When a youth is killed and Tyrrell himself is attacked he begins to smell a rat and starts his own...
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