検索キーワード： 海洋冒険

When Samantha Ashlyn is forced to return to her home town to write an article on a series of drownings, she initially resists, finding disturbing similarities to her childhood experiences. However, once she starts looking into the assignment, she finds that things are not what they seem. An ancient evil is rising again, aided by what appears to be a centuries-old conspiracy to keep it hidden. With the help of a disgraced police diver, Sam races to stop the nightmare before more lives are lost—not realizing that her investigation has put herself and those she loves in terrible danger.

When Special Agent Kurt Hunter is forced to follow the trail of a killer to the small ex-smuggling town of Everglades City, he faces some unique challenges—one of which is staying alive.

The story follows the undoing of Peter Willems, a dishonorable man on the run from a scandal of his own making. After leaving Macassar, he takes refuge in a remote village and river post. The native people of the village take him in and serve as benefactors to Peter, but he seems doomed to fail each test of his character.

Захватывающая история о том, как Бальтазар Косса, консула Римской империи Корнелиуса Коссы, проходит детские забавы, подростковые драки и первые сексуальные похождения. Пиратские морские баталии и сексуальные вечеринки. Бальтазар студент и непревзойденный любовник, его жаждут все девушки, Болоньи, как целомудренные, так и опытные геттеры... Золото, женщины и власть – вот его девиз.

Rick Brant and his friend Scotty are bound for the islands of the South Pacific. But beaches and the tropical climate are not what they have in mind. Deeper than divers have ever been lies the ancient temple of Alta-Yuan. Is the Spindrift's new experiment, the Submobile, capable of withstanding the pressures of the deep? If so, there may be others interested in using it for purposes other than scientific studies.

Peter LeFroy is fifteen years old, but the tales are anything but adolescent tales. They are hardened sailor tales complete with life and death at every turn. On his adventure, Peter becomes a Pirate—against his will; lives with some Eskimos—who save his life; lives through on-board fires, iceberg disasters, brutal whale hunting, and falls in love with a young girl named Mary. This book is about courage and perseverance. It was one of the first in the YA genre from England and was published the same year as Melville’s Moby Dick.

The protagonist of this story is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. He is a fellow who would have delighted the young Stephen Maturin or Jack Aubrey...and quarrelled with them as well. Together with his life-long friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking on a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands and excitement.

Рассказ повествует о корабле «Катти Сарк», самом известном и единственном сохранившимся до наших дней парусников, лучшем клипере девятнадцатого века, бороздившем Индийский океан. Первый вариант этого рассказа был опубликован в 1944 году. После того, как его перевод был издан в Великобритании, английские читатели сообщили много новых фактов о судьбе парусника. В 1952 году в Англии было создано Общество сохранения «Катти Сарк», которое на собранные деньги отреставрировало корабль и поставило его на сухую стоянку.

Amphibious warfare was in its infancy in the mid-18th century–it was the poor relation of the great fleet actions that the navy so loved.... That all changed in 1758 when the British government demanded a campaign of raids on the French Channel ports. Command arrangements were hastily devised and a whole new class of vessels was produced at breakneck speed: flatboats, the ancestors of the landing craft that put the allied forces ashore on D-Day.

Like buccaneers of old, the violent outlaws strike fast, hard, and without mercy. Stealing and pillaging whatever they can. But unlike bygone swashbucklers, the cunning criminals utilize advanced modern technology and bribes to fuel their vast, intricate, well-oiled operation.

Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant ocean liners. From the members of first class in all their finery, to the card cheats and pickpockets plying their trade, they've experienced more than their share of humanity. For their latest voyage, the Salsette boasts a pair of travellers who feign ignorance of each other but there is clearly no love lost between them. Then there’s an elderly man whose powers of deduction may be based on more earthly techniques than the mystical energy he claims to possess.

Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war. In London, as the Blitz bombs rain down and the threat of German invasion looms, Lily Nicholls anxiously counts the days for news of her son and daughter’s safe arrival.

When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the "monster" is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo.

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers and listeners. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

Brady was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. YARNS OF THE FORECASTLE: Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor!

Tragedy strikes when a holidaymaker dies in a blazing car, but when trainee detective, Constable Nora Sommer, is called to the scene of a second fire, she discovers a ruthless pattern emerging.

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. THE MAN AND THE CANNON: One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pounder, had broken loose. This is the most dangerous accident that can possibly take place on shipboard. Nothing more terrible can happen to a sloop of war in open sea and under full sail.

I am not likely to forget that next morning, the 28th of August, (17). It was a fine summer's morning, and there was just a little sea on, with a strongish breeze blowing from the eastward, but not enough to prevent boats coming off from Portsmouth. I counted forty sail-of-the-line, a dozen frigates and smaller ships of war, and well-nigh three hundred merchant vessels, riding, as of course we were, to the flood with our heads towards Cowes.

Dans cette série fantastique, partez pour une expérience scientifique dans laquelle vous ferez une découverte surprenante, qui risque de bouleverser l'équilibre naturel de la planète et questionnera la survie même de l'humanité. Et si les mégalodons, de gigantesques requins préhistoriques, vivaient encore aux plus profond des océans ? C'est la découverte révolutionnaire que fait Kim Melville, océanologue réputée, lors d'une expédition commanditée par un milliardaire excentrique.

Dix ans après un tremblement de terre cataclysmique et un tsunami dévastateurs dans le nord-ouest du Pacifique, la zone de subduction Cascadia révèle un abîme inexploré. Le milliardaire philanthrope Wesley Badger décide d'y mener une expédition à bord du sous-marin Alexandrie. Contraint de renoncer au départ, il laisse le jeune capitaine Declan Walters aux commandes. Mais les membres de l'équipage ont du mal à faire confiance à leur nouveau capitaine, surtout après une plongée de routine qui ne se passe pas du tout comme prévu.