Titres dans Aventures maritimes

A vacation to Mexico is supposed to be about sun, sand, and drunken debauchery. It's not supposed to include being trapped in a cave and trying to keep your head above water, while slimy things watch you with gleefully hungry eyes. Ellie Hughes swears that if she makes it home alive, her travel agent is going to get such a bad review.

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach, Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman, and throws them to the sea. My dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.... But the bottle is picked up by Theresa, a mother with a shattered past, who feels unaccountably drawn to this lonely man. Who are this couple? What is their story?

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the tale of the crew of the Hispaniola as they travel across the sea in search of the long-lost treasure of the infamous Captain Flint. When Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the sea chest of an old sailor who had been staying at his parents' inn, he sets off on an adventure in search of the captain's hidden fortune.

This work set the style for a whole class of literature, a work that the critic Morton Dauwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme...the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery and its cognate, the discovery of reality and truth...." It is a novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice.

Questo libro, pubblicato nel 1851 senza alcun successo, e riscoperto nel 1921, quando evidentemente il pubblico, maturato, poteva apprezzarlo, è considerato un capolavoro della letteratura americana, e si è talmente tanto radicato nell'inconscio collettivo che il nome di Moby Dick ha assunto ovunque il significato dell Assoluto irraggiungibile e della inevitabile sconfitta dell'orgoglio umano di fronte alle forze metafisiche.

Diane seems to have the perfect life. She is a wife, a mother, and the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary café in Paris. But when she suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the world as she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Diane retreats from friends and family, unable and unwilling to move forward.

It's spring break in Hunter Bay, NC, and five college friends have come to let loose, enjoy the sun and make it a vacation they'll never forget. While enjoying a seafood lunch, they take one of the locals up on a suspiciously cheap pontoon rental. But when they depart from the dock, they are blissfully unaware of the terror already happening out at sea....

In Northern Michigan, nature is about to reveal its deadliest secret. A series of strange events baffle the residents of a local resort town. People go into the water and disappear; lakeshore properties are mysteriously vacant; and a bizarre slimy mass accumulates within the weeds. When his customers begin to vanish without a trace, resort owner Greg Goodman unites with the local Sheriff to investigate the matter. Before long, they realize something is lurking in this lake—something that was not here before.

Jim ist ein junger Seemann und erster Offizier auf der Patna, die auf der Reise nach Mekka ist, um Pilger dorthin zu bringen. Als ein Unglück passiert, verlässt die pflichtvergessene Crew das Schiff - auch Jim, der eigentlich an Bord bleiben wollte. Aber das Schiff sinkt nicht, sondern wird in Sicherheit gebracht. Jim muss sich seiner Verantwortung stellen... Ein vielschichtiger, außerordentlich erfolgreicher Roman, dessen Erzähler einmal mehr der geheimnisvolle Charles Marlow ist.

Rebels. Outlaws. Icons. Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run - from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them. Plantation owner's daughter, runaway wife, pirate - Anne Bonny has forged her own story in a...

Jim is a young man who has chosen a career with the Merchant Marines. Early on he is tested by the sea and found wanting. His ship founders on the high seas and sinks. Disregarding the passengers, Jim and the rest of the crew manage to escape in lifeboats. The passengers die with the ship. Haunted by his one act of cowardice, Jim wanders from port to port in search of self-respect. He manages to redeem himself and earn the title of Lord Jim in a dangerous and exciting fashion.

Uno dei più bei romanzi d'avventura e di mare che anticipa molti dei temi ecologici con cui dobbiamo fare i conti ai giorni nostri...

Ever since Cambridge-bound Colin Lancaster spied on stable master Patrick Callahan mastering another man, he's longed for Patrick to do the same to him. When Patrick is caught with his pants down and threatened with death for his crime, Colin speaks up in his defense and confesses his own sinful nature. They're soon banished to the faraway prison colony of Australia. Patrick never asked for Colin's help, and now he's stuck with the pampered fool.

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar, read by Juliet Stevenson. This voyage is special. It will change everything… One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains...

THE CROWN CALLS IT PRIVATEERING. CAPTAIN TYLER CALLS IT TREASON.1705, Port Royal. British Navy Captain William Tyler returns from patrol expecting a promotion. Instead, he finds his command stripped and his reputation under siege.On his final mission, Tyler didn't just find enemy shipshe...

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.

Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other with his faithful rendition of its speech, the language he hopes to preserve. But the people who live here on this rock - three miles wide and half-a-mile long - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return.