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Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian. In action, adventure, and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

In this new adventure, Hornblower is overjoyed to discover his next task is to serve aboard the mighty HMS Renown. After witnessing some unsettling scenes however, he soon finds himself struggling to serve under the captain, James Sawyer, whose unsound mind leads him to treat his crew with extreme suspicion and contempt.

Charismatic expat Bobby Little built his own funky version of paradise on the remote island of Rum Cay, a place where ambitious sport fishermen docked their yachts for fine French cuisine and crowded the bar to boast of big blue marlin catches while Bobby refilled their cognac on the house. Larger than life, Bobby was really the main attraction: a visionary entrepreneur, expert archer, reef surfer, bush pilot, master chef, seductive conversationalist.

Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Ein vom Nachthimmel gepflücktes Sternchen verspricht das große Glück. Eine Nordeuropa-Kreuzfahrt? Geschenkt? Da sagen wir nicht Nein, denken sich die besten Freundinnen Anneke und Tilda. Während Tilda die Reise mit dem Kreuzfahrtschiff "Ocean Darling" nutzen möchte, um sich einen Mann fürs Leben zu angeln, hat Anneke nur die baldige Eröffnung ihrer Apotheke im Sinn. Tilda kommt es wie gerufen, als zwei attraktive Crewmitglieder die Zeit an Bord für die Mädels aufregend und romantisch werden lassen. Aber auch unter den Passagieren gibt es Männer, die gerne flirten.

La vie du jeune Jim Hawkins bascule le jour où un marin ivrogne et balafré s'installe dans l'auberge tenue par ses parents. Qui est réellement celui que l'on surnomme le "capitaine" ? Pourquoi se cache-t-il ? Une nuit, des pirates attaquent l'auberge. Jim n'a que le temps de fuir, emportant avec lui le secret du vieux forban : la carte d'une île abritant un fabuleux trésor... Le chef-d'œuvre incontesté d'un maître de l'aventure.

Römisches Reich, 25 n.Chr.: Seine erste Fahrt zur See mündet für den jungen Telemachos in einen Kampf um Leben und Tod. Das Handelsschiff, auf dem er angeheuert hat, wird gekapert. Um seine Haut zu retten, muss er sich wohl oder übel den Männern des grausamen Kapitäns Bulla anschließen. In der brutalen Welt der Seeräuber verdient sich Telemachos durch Zähigkeit und Geschick den Respekt der Mannschaft. Als am Horizont die Segel der römischen Flotte in Sicht kommen, ist er längst selbst zum Piraten geworden. Die letzte Schlacht naht.

1774: Rob Courtney is growing up in Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay, a trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, and has always dreamed of going to sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited, and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by its charms and makes friends with a group of fast-living men and ends up in terrible debt.

Alla ricerca di un tesoro nascosto in un'isola deserta, la nave pirata Regina dei mari affonda ancora prima di giungere alla costa. Al naufragio sopravvivono solo i quindici uomini che prima della tragedia si erano ammutinati al capitano. Ognuno di loro possiede un indizio per raggiungere il tesoro, ma il percorso si rivela più pericoloso del previsto: uno per uno, gli ammutinati muoiono in circostanze misteriose prima di raggiungere lo scrigno. Il tesoro è davvero maledetto o qualcuno di loro sta architettando un complotto per mettere le mani sul bottino?

Cosa avrebbe da dire un girino che abita uno stagno all'arrogante che cerca in tutti i modi di contaminare l'acqua? E cosa pensano davvero le acciughe sui banconi dei bar liguri di questa tra- dizione alimentare? Com'è, insomma, la vita in questo mondo alla rovescia in cui gli animali e le sirene parlano, si lamentano dell'uomo, lo sfidano e lo contrastano?

Die Gefährten Karge, Anselmo und Anna haben sich eben an ihr neues Leben in Ceuta unter Heinrichs Schutz gewöhnt, als eine Depesche von König Johann eintrifft: Karge soll einen neuen Stützpunkt für die portugiesische Krone finden! Doch bevor das Segelabenteuer beginnt, muss Anselmo sein Geschäft einem Tollpatsch überlassen, Anna bekommt Besuch aus ihrer Kindheit, ein neuer Mönch tritt in das Leben der Freunde und alte Bekannte aus Venedig tauchen wieder auf. Gemeinsam erleben sie eine aufregende Entdeckungsfahrt, auf der Suche nach der Insel im Atlantik.

It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered HMS Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus.

When Sean O’Brien stops near the Florida Everglades to buy flowers for a woman, he doesn’t know that the purchase will lead to a trail of deceit, greed and murder. Chester Miller’s life goal is to restore rare ghost orchids in the Everglades. Entering the glades, he sees something that is very much out of place. The elder botanist becomes a target. O’Brien, in a race with the clock, follows a near invisible path that takes him across Florida in a web of dark political corruption.

An adventure story set in the Solomon Islands sees Jack and Toni, childhood schoolmates, set out on a routine boat trip to a neighbouring island, but things go awry when they discover, due to an oversight by Toni, that they do not have enough fuel to make the journey and are stranded at sea. At first they are optimistic that they will be rescued within hours, but as the first days draw to an end they slowly begin to realise that the mistake has left them in serious jeopardy and they can see no end but their own demise in sight.

Marcelo, un joven buzo aficionado, busca en las aguas heladas de la Patagonia el lugar exacto del hundimiento de la Swift, una corbeta británica del siglo XVIII. Cuando la persona que más sabe del naufragio en todo el país aparece asesinada con un mensaje extraño en el regazo, Marcelo descubre que su inocente pasatiempo constituye una amenaza enorme para cierta gente. No sabe a quién se enfrenta, pero sí que compite con ellos por reflotar un secreto que, después de dos siglos bajo el mar, podría cambiar la historia de aquella parte remota del planeta.

Sean O’Brien knows that his close friend, Dave Collins, isn’t a man who asks for favors. After three decades as a CIA officer, Collins learned self-reliance from the best school in the world - the streets. However, after five years out of the agency, he stops looking over his shoulder. And then the assassinations begin. One by one. Five of the CIA’s best former officers. Dave Collins’ old colleagues. Local police can’t protect retired CIA officers from ghosts of their past. Dave’s life is on the line, and they are coming for him.

For more than 20 years, Ella has learned to live without her mother, Maggie, who disappeared into a fog of mental illness when Ella turned 10. Despite this trauma, Ella has forged ahead, becoming a veterinarian, getting married, and most of all, developing a deep, trusting bond with her father, John, a ferry captain in Seattle. Ella’s contented life is shattered when her father is hit by a car and killed. Going through his papers, she learns that her father maintained a secret relationship with her mother.

The vicious mutineers aboard the British ship Jocasta had surrendered their vessel to Spain. Sailing aboard the frigate Calypso, Captain Lord Ramage receives Admiralty orders to recover her by any means.

Roman drame. Huis clos. Une fille et des hommes costauds face à des soldats de l'Empire et à des policiers du Royaume. Tout se passe en une nuit terrible sur un Rhône en crue. "La table du roi", c'est ce rocher à fleur d'eau, au milieu du fleuve : là où patron Mathias a amarré sa barge alors que Napoléon vient de débarquer à Golfe-Juan et monte vers la capitale. Quelques heures seulement qui décideront du sort de ces bateliers aux prises avec l'Histoire.