Titres dans Aventures maritimes

Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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 del Perú. Il povero pescatore Juan Narciso Ucañan non crede ai suoi occhi: dopo lunghe settimane di magra, davanti a lui si stende un enorme banco di pesci.

La morte non fa sconti a nessuno. Forse è per questo che anche un uomo avido e arido come Settimo Panieri sente il bisogno di alleggerirsi l'anima prima che lo trascini a fondo per l'eternità. La statua in bronzo che giace nella sua cantina fu pescata quarant'anni prima nelle acque di Ventotene. Ora è arrivato il momento di restituirla al legittimo proprietario: lo Stato italiano.

New York, 1850. Two clipper ships depart on a race around Cape Horn to the boomtown of San Francisco, where the first to arrive will gain the largest profits and also win a $50,000 wager for her owner.

Darby Jones thought she was only returning to her grandparents’ home in Stonington, Maine, for quiet nights and a life spent editing other people’s stories. But when her recurring nightmares spill into waking life, the tide begins to shift. A phantom ship drifts through the fog. A raven delivers a relic that shouldn’t exist. And soon Darby is pulled into the spiral of a sea where cursed men wander and sirens sing for lost souls.

2086. Die Erde ist vergiftet, die Menschheit nahezu ausgelöscht. Nur eine künstlich erschaffene Stadt am Äquator bietet den letzten Überlebenden Schutz unter einer riesigen Kuppel: die City of Seasons.

Under the seas there is a captain. He is feared by his enemies and tolerated by his friends. His name is Wolfgang Tiberus Howle. A feirce sailor and werewolf aboard the SS Moon beam. A powerful submarine built by the Gods in Atlantis. Come along as he and his motley crew of misfits try to save the world from evil wizards, insane gods and the evils of soap operas.

It’s been years since Ellie fished the Alaskan coastline—not since her mother died. But when she finds her father beat up behind the local bar, she learns he’s done the unforgivable: gambled away the family’s commercial fishing boat—her five-year-old son’s inheritance and the life she longs to reclaim. For nefarious reasons of his own, the bookie gives them one season to earn the money to buy it back.

Lucas, Grace, and Irene—newly wealthy from their past exploits—set sail for Tampa to chase a fresh legend: the sunken Spanish galleon Santa Reina, said to hold over $50 million in lost gold and jewels. With their custom salvage yacht, diving gear, and a new instructor named Skye, the team thinks they’re prepared for anything. They’re wrong.

Stolen from her ship as a child, Elizabeth Langley is forced to watch her mother’s enslavement and torture at the hands of the notorious Blade the Barbarian. Months pass without the reward promised by her grandfather, forcing Elizabeth to grow into a bitter, hate-filled child. This frightened little girl easily wins the hearts and loyalty of a ruthless crew of cutthroats. Years of hiding and training in secret, the child grew into a pirate as heartless and merciless as any man aboard the ship. Elizabeth vows her revenge on the man who condemned her to the life of a savage.

Experience a shipwrecked sailor’s disintegration into ‘a naked madman on a rock’ by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James A Penguin Classic Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there...

The oily and brackish waters of the Russian Northern Fleet submarine base part for the passage of the colossal special purpose Omega II-class submarine Belgorod, on a mission to hold the United States hostage. This gigantic submarine is armed with three Poseidon unmanned submersibles, each with a 10-megaton warhead. Her goal: placing them offshore in US ports in a nuclear-blackmail chess move.

*Shortlisted for the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award 2019!* When Lottie’s Gran dies she leaves one last request; save Greenley Theatre. Faced with a decaying building, a mayor who most definitely isn’t on board with the project and a group of actors who just can’t get along, Lottie...

This is a spin-off story to Bloodlines and Black Flags. This is a collection of stories and perspectives from more minor characters in Diego's crew from Bloodlines and Black Flags.

Es ist Vorweihnachtszeit. Auf der Ostseeinsel Fehmarn kehrt besinnliche Ruhe ein. Doch dann wird ein Mann tot aufgefunden. Er wurde in seiner Ferienwohnung erschlagen. Ins Visier der Ermittlungen gerät eine exzentrische Lebedame, inselbekannt für ihre vielen Männerbekanntschaften. Die alternde Charmeurin ist stets knapp bei Kasse. Sie schafft es aber immer wieder, sich von ihren Eroberungen aushalten zu lassen. Hat ihre Habgier sie zur Mörderin gemacht?

Tortuga, Cartagena e Veracruz, ambientati negli ultimi decenni del Seicento, raccontano i gloriosi atti conclusivi dell'epopea dei filibustieri di stanza nei Caraibi, tra abbordaggi, rapimenti, episodi di ferocia e di abnegazione, passioni amorose divoranti, cameratismo e rivalità su vascelli sovraccarichi in cui il sangue si mescola al sudore. Ma, all'alba del XVIII secolo, il tempo dei pirati sembra giunto a termine. Ormai superati dalla Storia, i Fratelli della Costa che hanno terrorizzato i Caraibi per cinquant'anni non spariranno, ma saranno chiamati a un differente destino.

Als Sophie ihren Mann und ihren Sohn bei einem Bootsunglück verliert, scheint auch ihr Lebensmut zu sterben. Doch die leidenschaftliche Schwimmerin gibt nicht auf: Sie beschließt, im Rahmen der »Ocean’s Seven Challenge« sieben Meeresstraßen zu durchschwimmen. Was als abenteuerliche Idee beginnt, wird zu einem unerbittlichen Kampf gegen ihre inneren Dämonen und gegen die harte Realität auf hoher See: eiskaltes Wasser, meterhohe Wellen, giftige Quallen. Sophie schwimmt und schwimmt – getrieben von Emotionen, die sich im Laufe der Zeit wandeln: Schmerz, Zorn und Hoffnung.

Andrea Schnidt landet ohne große Ambitionen und mit ihrem Mann Paul auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff und schippert Richtung Nordkap. Alles nur, um ihrem Ex-Schwiegervater Rudi und seiner Liebsten Irene einen Gefallen zu tun. Dass auch noch ihr Ex und dessen Neue auf dem Schiff sein werden und Andrea dem All You can eat verfällt – geschenkt. Rudi verschwindet, und auch Enkelsohn Halvar sorgt für Aufregung.

She was known for what she lost She lived by the courage she found "Find Polaris" When the SS Titanic set sail, Captain Edward John Smith became a legend – and when tragedy struck he was a hero to some, reckless to others. But in the shadow of his infamy stood his daughter, left behind on the...