Titres dans Aventures maritimes

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.

Their passion refuses to fizzle out and burns brighter, hotter, and, frighteningly, deeper every time. Rosetta manages to convince the land-hating Alister to port. They need supplies, and the Laughing Siren still needs repairs. But land may be dangerous for them—and not just because of the bounty on his head.

Borkum, 1855: Eng aneinandergedrückt sitzen sie zum Schutz vor dem tosenden Sturm im dunklen Kirchturm, dem einzigen hohen Gebäude: Grete, ihre drei Kleinen und all die anderen Frauen und Kinder der Insel. 150 Jahre später kommt die Geologin Helen nach Borkum, um ihre Doktorarbeit über die Wanderbewegungen der ostfriesischen Inseln zu schreiben. In ihren Augen ist die Natur schön und faszinierend.

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

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.

*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.

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...

Daisy May thought she had everything figured out. After successfully establishing her coffee shop at the idyllic Wildflower Lock and with things going well with charming Theo, she was ready to embrace her happily ever after. But when Theo pops the question, the happiness is overtaken by worries. Because meeting Theo’s family for the first time is not accompanied by the warm welcome she hoped for. Theo’s parents disapprove of her and they have no qualms in showing it. And when they reveal secrets about Theo’s past, Daisy is left in a spiral.

Katherine Howell’s life takes a mysterious turn as she navigates the dangerous waters of espionage and betrayal. Living on a yacht for two years, she becomes a target for the CIA. As she sets out on a journey from Corsica to the U.S., she senses a looming threat. How can she endure the events that led a simple young woman from East Texas into this perilous situation, including the death of her grandmother, the loss of her child, and the reported death of her husband in Vietnam?