Titres dans Aventures maritimes

Storm "Ketch" Ketchum, a damaged émigré to the coastal town of Avon on North Carolina's Outer Banks, likes to mind his own business and isn't any kind of detective–until he's forced to become one by extraordinary circumstances. On the verge of losing his modest waterfront home to an unscrupulous developer, Ketch stumbles onto the scene of a crime that might expose the perpetrator of an unsolved murder, enabling him to save not only his own home, but also the similarly threatened Bohemian boatyard community he's inexorably drawn into.

A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype­—Athena, Patrol Coastal 15­­—with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride.

"Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836) is mostly a humorous, sometimes ironic, satirical, seafaring adventure. However, the early chapters of the novel address the birth, upbringing, and education of "our Hero", Jack Easy, and set the stage for the rest of the book.

England, 1785: Die 19-jährige Liliana Preston wuchs als uneheliches Kind wohlbehütet bei ihrer Tante in Wiltshire auf. Als eines Tages ihr verschollen geglaubter Vater Jack Farson auftaucht, um sie vor den Heiratsplänen der Mutter zu retten, ist Liliana überglücklich. Jack ist Kapitän auf einer Fregatte und lädt Liliana ein, ihn auf seinem Schiff zu besuchen. Doch auf dem Rückweg wird sie von Piraten entführt, die Jack erpressen wollen.

Monty Powers, an airline pilot, contract DEA agent, and ex-Army Ranger, is on the trail of a secret pirate's treasure with an authenticated family legacy...a detailed treasure map. However, he's pitted against a vicious Haitian drug cartel, hell-bent on his brutal assassination. Deadly sharks and action-packed gun fights keep the adrenaline continually flowing! Money Bay is a story of a pirate's buried treasure, sizzling action adventure, and true romantic love.

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 ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #7 ‘An absolute master of pace, plotting and character’ ELLY GRIFFITHS ON A REMOTE ISLAND When Jez Cardew’s boat is found drifting empty on the Atlantic Ocean, DI Ben Kitto and his fellow lifeboat crew members immediately fear the worst. After an extensive...

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.

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.

In the whole history of the English people there is no period so absolutely heroic, so full of enthralling interest, as that in which the might of England made itself apparent by land and sea—the period which saw good Queen Bess mistress of English hearts and Englishmen and sovereign of the great beginnings which came to such a magnificent fruition under Victoria. That was indeed a golden time—an age of great venture and enterprise—a period wherein men’s hearts were set on personal valor and bravery—the day of great deeds and of courage most marvelous.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Als Schiffbrüchiger gerät der gebildete van Weyden auf den Robbenfänger „Ghost“ unter dem berüchtigten Kapitän Wolf Larsen, der den Literaten zum Küchenjungen macht, denn für ihn gilt allein das brutale Recht des Stärkeren. Und Wolf Larsen ist der Stärkere. Voller Abscheu und doch auch fasziniert erlebt van Weyden, wie sich bei diesem Mann tierhafte Kraft und Schönheit mit einer gänzlich skrupellosen und zynisch materialistischen Weltanschauung verbinden. Der Konflikt zwischen einem zynisch-brutalen Kapitän und einem Schiffbrüchigen. Die Figur des Übermenschen und sein Scheitern. Einer der erfolgreichsten Romane der Literaturgeschichte.