Titres dans Aventures maritimes

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.

„Wir wanken immer, aber wir fallen nicht...“ Alexandre Dumas Wer Alexandre Dumas als Autor historischer Abenteuerepen wie „Die drei Musketiere“ und „Der Graf von Monte Christo“ kennt, wird von diesem Buch gänzlich überrascht. Die Satire, halb Tiergeschichte, halb Seemannsgarn...

Peter Nichols’ novel, which has been likened to the works of Jack London and Joseph Conrad, immediately rose to top places on bestseller lists across the country. Voyage to the North Star offers an amazing combination of high-seas adventure and human folly. It is also filled with authentic...

Dreizehn Jahre war er in Haft, nun wird Paulus Olsen aus humanitären Gründen vorzeitig entlassen. Einst war er als Seebrückenteufel gefürchtet. Drei Frauen hat er auf dem Gewissen. Immer wurden ihre Leichen auf einer Seebrücke gefunden, und immer trugen sie eine Teufelsmaske. Seine Taten bereut er zutiefst. Die letzten Wochen seines Lebens möchte er bei der Frau Ruhe finden, die ihn seit Jahren als selbsternannter „Engel der Gefangenen" betreut.

Montagmorgen auf Helgoland: Inselfischer Aksel Suhl wird tot auf seinem Kutter gefunden. Sofort nehmen die Hauptkommissare Jonte Platt und Astrid Schnacker die Ermittlungen auf. Der Killer schlägt ein weiteres Mal zu. Zu allem Übel kämpft Astrid mit persönlichen Problemen: Ihr Bruder Rafael braucht dringend ihre Hilfe.

Three journalists witness the unbelievable. Their biggest problem is not surviving it—it is convincing anyone else that it happened. Traveling from Cape Town to England aboard a small tramp steamer, three newspapermen expect an uneventful voyage home. Instead, a violent underwater disturbance...

Based on the true story of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, this historical adventure follows Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers after they cast Captain Bligh adrift and flee in search of a place beyond the reach of British law. Seeking an island remote enough to escape discovery, they...

Fourteen-year-old Nick Haversen is obsessed with pirates and the ghostly galleons said to haunt the shores of Pine Tree Bay. When a mysterious wrecked frigate appears on the beach, he sneaks aboard at night. Suddenly he is no longer in his own time. He is a cabin boy on the infamous 17th-century pirate ship The Fancy, under the command of the notorious Captain Henry Every.

The metaphysically disorienting tale of a female captain who loses control of her thinking—and her crew—aboard a cargo ship in the Atlantic. Ultramarine begins when the female captain agrees to let her crew stop the engines and go for a swim. But when they return, the crew of mariners is not...

Dewey Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is back to cut a wide and wicked swatch through the war-torn Caribbean in Havoc's Sword, an entirely new high seas adventure. It's 1798, and Lewrie and his crew of the Proteus frigate have their work cut out for...

This audiobook is narrated by Indira Varma and Tom Burke. As recommended by the BBC Radio 2 Book Club 'A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. I didn’t want it to end' - S J Watson They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets...

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...

This “thrilling, swashbuckling story” (People) based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and a forbidden love story that will shape the course of history. In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo...

A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light, Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea. “An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore...

The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling writer, Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new edition of Gilbert's wise and charming novel for the millions of readers who...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young...

In Gideon Defoe’s fifth Pirates! adventure, the dashing Pirate Captain and his intrepid crew encounter perhaps the most swashbuckling poets in history: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s fiancée, Mary Godwin. While visiting the shores of Lake Geneva to restore their...

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century...

A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to...