Titres dans Aventures maritimes

The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family… After his father’s gambling debts leave him penniless and in danger, Francis Courtney seeks revenge and fortune in South...

Arigonde dit le Parisien, fric-Frac, le Caïd, le Bêcheur, Palas n'a pas pires ennemis à Cayenne et il passerait de mauvais quarts d'heure sans la protection du "dab du Pré", autrement dit le roi du bagne Chéri-Bibi. Celui-ci l'a pris en affection parce qu'il le sait injustement condamné et a décidé de l'aider à s'évader pour qu'il refasse sa vie.

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages, and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century despite trying his utmost to escape them all.

Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel doors holding it in a Monterey, California, aquarium. The captive 20-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more.

Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is press-ganged into the crew of HMS Indomitable in 1797, soon after the mutiny in the British fleet. Billy is popular with everyone on board except Claggart, the master-at-arms, a depraved and wicked man. His malice towards Billy results in a death, a court-martial and an execution at sea.

Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early 19th century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But when something happens to Reverend Colley that brings him into a 'hell of self-degradation', it seems that shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself....

Time is a very fluid thing, no one really has a grasp on it other than maybe how to measure it. As the maestro of the Day by Day Armageddon Universe, I have the latitude of being in control of that time. I can adjust the slider either direction, moving the timeline back and forth along the continuum. This is one of the perks of creation, the benefit in constructing something (albeit small) from nothing. Sort of makes you wonder what the maestro of the universe is up to, no? You have again stumbled upon a ticket with service through the apocalyptic wastes, but this time the train is a little bit older, a little more beat up, and maybe a little wiser. Keep your doors locked.

The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a monomaniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick. Capturing life on the sea with robust realism, Melville details the adventures of the colorful crew aboard the ship as Ahab pursues his crusade of revenge, heedless of all cost.

The barometer is falling. Captain MacWhirr is holding his course. Practical, unimaginative, and stubbornly devoted to duty, MacWhirr sees little reason to steer the steamship Nan-Shan away from a storm. But as a Pacific typhoon closes in, his routine voyage becomes a desperate fight for survival...

Inselliebe und Nordseebrise. Zusammen mit ihrem Bruder führt Rieke das Familienrestaurant Wilkens auf der idyllischen Insel Spiekeroog. Alles könnte so schön sein, wäre da nicht der Halbspanier Nando, der für ihre Mutter als Servicekraft einspringt und sie mit seiner lockeren Art beinahe um den Verstand bringt. Immer wieder geraten sie aneinander, weil er sie nicht in Ruhe lässt. Wen interessiert schon sein aufgesetzter südländischer Charme und seine Tierliebe? Bis Rieke erkennt, dass sie ihn nur auf Abstand hält, weil sie Angst hat, verletzt zu werden, wenn er irgendwann die Insel verlässt.

Zwischen Abenteuer, Pflichtgefühl und Leidenschaft: Der historische Roman Captain Nelson - Unter der Flagge des Königs ist der erste Band von Mac P. Lornes Dilogie über das Leben von Lord Nelson, Englands größtem Seehelden. Er gilt bis heute als der ruhmreichste Offizier der Royal Navy: 1784 erhält der junge Captain Horatio Nelson den Auftrag, das Handelsverbot zwischen den englischen Kolonien in Westindien und den abtrünnigen USA zu überwachen. Die verbotenen Geschäfte sind allerdings höchst lukrativ, weshalb der britische Gouverneur von Antigua beide Augen zudrückt.

Scuba divers travel from all over the world to visit the little island of Bonaire, with its crystal clear waters and a host of beautiful marine life. After three years in the “Diver's Paradise”, divemaster Boone Fischer thought he’d seen it all, but on a routine afternoon dive, he spots something that will turn his tranquil life upside down.

Hong Kong, 1941... To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, the war in Europe remains remote. Even the massive build-up of Japanese forces on the Chinese border cannot dent their carefree optimism. Yet one man suspects the truth. Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke, captain of HMS Serpent and a veteran of the cruel Atlantic, sees all too clearly the folly and incompetence of Hong Kong’s colonial administration. To Brooke, attack by Japan seems inevitable.

Dio creò i grandi mostri marini e tutti gli esseri viventi che guizzano e brulicano nelle acque, secondo la loro specie... Dio li benedisse: «Siate fecondi e moltiplicatevi e riempite le acque dei mari»... E fu sera e fu mattina: quinto giorno. GENESI 1, 21-23 14 gennaio. Huanchaco, costa...

Mary Elizabeth Arrington ist 63 Jahre alt und verzweifelt: Der erfolgsverwöhnten Krimi-Autorin will einfach keine neue Idee einfallen. Also bucht sie auf der luxuriösen Queen Anne eine Kreuzfahrt durch die Karibik. Die Schiffsreise soll sie auf andere Gedanken bringen - und hoffentlich die eine oder andere Inspiration für ihren nächsten Roman liefern. Doch schon der Eröffnungsball verläuft dramatisch: Der adrette Franzose, der Mary gerade noch zum Tanz aufgefordert hat, windet sich im Todeskampf am Boden und stirbt. Ein Mord! Marys Neugierde und ihr Spürsinn sind geweckt.

Brought to you by Penguin. The sea stole him from her. Could it bring him back? Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up on the beach of a small fishing village in Scotland, barely alive. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy's son, lost to the sea many years before. When the village is...

Ein mitreißendes historisches Abenteuer, inspiriert vom Leben Grace O'Malleys, der legendären irischen Volksheldin, die alles riskierte, um ihr Volk zu verteidigen Grace O'Malley wurde geboren, um Kapitänin zu werden. Doch trotz ihres natürlichen Talents auf dem Wasser erkennt Grace schon...

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides...

George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels, praises this hearty saga as "one of the great unrecognized novels of the 20th century." Doctor Peter Blood's quiet life is shattered when he is convicted of treason for helping a wounded nobleman in the 1685 rebellion against King James II.