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A standalone story in Kevin J. Anderson’s Terra Incognita universe. What happens when a close-minded prester is confronted with a mythical creature that his faith will not let him believe in?

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 mystical man who calls himself Captain Nemo.

Jedediah Trelawney joins a small, overcrowded ship bound for America. A young man from a privileged background, he struggles to adapt to life at sea. Determined to earn the respect of his fellow passengers, he undertakes arduous tasks alongside the crew, but Jed is not cut out for the life of a sailor.

Juan de Santiago is not only a billionaire coca grower, he is also a deranged revolutionary; the commander of the most powerful private army in South America. Backed by power-hungry rogue nations who supply him with the latest weaponry, de Santiago devises a plan that will dishearten the American antidrug effort and make him El Jefe once and for all.

First conceived during a rainy summer holiday in the Highlands of Scotland in an attempt to amuse his stepson, Treasure Island began with the map. Young Lloyd Osbourne had drawn a crude version of an island, and Stevenson, looking over the boy's shoulder, began to elaborate, christening various curves and smudges the famed names of Skeleton Island and Spyglass Hill and finally adding the three red crosses marking the buried treasure.

Ishmael, a sailor looking for his next adventure, and his friend who happens to be a former prince, sign up to join a whaling ship in Nantucket. The morning before they set sail on their voyage, many ominous signs of what the pair's fate may be are seen and heard through sermon and prophecy as the two friends ignore the warnings and make their way to the docks. Soon into the trip, the one-legged Captain Ahab announces that the whaling adventure is really a hunt for one very specific large, white sperm whale.

The author of Drowning Erin and Waking Olivia presents her latest novel.

Bennett Sharp is on the run. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell. 

The classic story, told in the first person by Jim Hawkins, whose mother kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and who shared in the adventures from start to finish. An old sea dog comes to this peaceful inn one day, apparently intending to finish his life there. He hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors, but despite all precautions, he is hunted out and served with the black spot that means death. Jim and his mother barely escape death when Blind Pew, Black Dog, and other pirates descend on the inn in search of the sea dog’s papers. Jim snatches up a packet of papers to square the sailor’s debt, when they were forced to retreat from the inn.

Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society.  

Based on the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during the Sir John Franklin Expedition in 1845, The Terror is a meticulously researched and fascinating account of 19th century seafaring life. "Masterfully chilling." —Entertainment Weekly The men on board the HMS...

Deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle, something has awakened. A primordial creature frozen in time, it is the oldest, largest, most efficient predator that nature has ever produced. And it is ravenously hungry.... Thirty-five miles off the Massachusetts coast, a small research ship is attacked. All but one of its crew is killed by the massive serpentine horror that rises from the sea. The creature likes this human prey. The chewy outer hide. The tender saltiness within. And it wants more....

‘Totally gripping and atmospheric. This hypnotic timeslip about witches is compulsive reading. Breathtaking and beautifully written… Will stay with the reader long after the last page.’ Bestselling author of The Witch’s Tree, Elena Collins Now: When Adrianna arrives at the small...

The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes...

For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea ‘Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!’ – Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her...

With Europe temporarily at peace, Napoleon Bonaparte has dispatched his victorious army with a vast fleet to the Caribbean. Its aim is to re-impose French authority in the region but first they must reconquer Saint-Domingue. Captain Nathan Peake is sent from England with a small squadron, tasked with disrupting French supply lines at sea and running guns to the rebel forces. But if the men are caught, they will be disowned by the British and US governments and very likely hanged by the French as pirates.

Teil 2 der Wikinger-Trilogie von Bestseller-Autor Richard Dübell! Nachdem Viggo durch einen Trick des nordischen Gottes Loki in die Zeit der Wikinger katapultiert wurde, hat er sich dort mühsam den Respekt des berühmten Wikingerkapitäns Leif Eriksson erarbeitet. Nun soll Viggo ihn und seine Mannschaft bei einer abenteuerlichen Entdeckungsfahrt begleiten – denn die Wikinger hoffen, jenseits des Ozeans Zuflucht vor der drohenden Götterdämmerung zu finden.

Eine tote Frau in der Markgrafenheide gibt der Polizei Rätsel auf. Hat der „Würger von Rostock" ein weiteres Mal zugeschlagen? Bereits vor Jahren jagte Hauptkommissar Kai Brötler einen eiskalten Serienkiller, der die Region in Atem hielt – seine Opfer waren ebenfalls junge Frauen. Jetzt holt die Vergangenheit den Ermittler ein. Diesmal jedoch braucht er die Hilfe von Oberkommissarin Frauke Eigen.

Hauptkommissarin Fenja Korn wird von Berlin nach Sylt strafversetzt. Kaum auf der Nordseeinsel angekommen, erschüttert ein Brand die Küste: Leuchtfeuerwärter Hark Petersen kommt in den Flammen ums Leben. Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin. Doch gemeinsam mit ihrem neuen Kollegen Hauke Sand entdeckt Fenja Korn am ausgebrannten Leuchtturm Hinweise, die nicht ins Bild passen.

Le Chancellor est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1874. Il se présente comme le Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon et raconte l'épopée des naufragés du navire anglais le Chancellor, entre le 27 septembre et le 27 janvier de l'année suivante. Ce roman – qui n'est pas l'un des plus connus de Jules Verne – est à la fois un roman d'aventures maritime et un roman initiatique, inspiré principalement par l'épisode du radeau de la Méduse survenu en 1816.