Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Aventures maritimes

La vie du jeune Jim Hawkins bascule le jour où un marin ivrogne et balafré s'installe dans l'auberge tenue par ses parents. Qui est réellement celui que l'on surnomme le "capitaine" ? Pourquoi se cache-t-il ? Une nuit, des pirates attaquent l'auberge. Jim n'a que le temps de fuir, emportant avec lui le secret du vieux forban : la carte d'une île abritant un fabuleux trésor... Le chef-d'œuvre incontesté d'un maître de l'aventure.

L’océan, Luka en a toujours rêvé. Vivre libre et loin de la misère dans laquelle elle a grandi l’obsède. Peu importe qu’elle soit une femme, sa détermination est sans limites et elle compte bien prendre la mer. Quand le capitaine de l’Endeavour l’intègre à son équipage en dépit des convenances, Luka semble toucher son rêve du doigt. Mais passée l’euphorie du départ, la vie à bord se révèle impitoyable.

Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian. In action, adventure, and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.

In this new adventure, Hornblower is overjoyed to discover his next task is to serve aboard the mighty HMS Renown. After witnessing some unsettling scenes however, he soon finds himself struggling to serve under the captain, James Sawyer, whose unsound mind leads him to treat his crew with extreme suspicion and contempt.

Having received strict and confidential orders from high above, C.S. Forester's inimitable hero must recapture The Flame, a brig which has been taken over by a band of mutineers. Voyaging to the Bay of Seine in order to rescue the captive Lieutenant Augustin Chadwick from his disloyal crew, Horatio Hornblower must once more fight for the freedom and safety of his people and country.

Horatio Hornblower sails South American waters and comes face to face with a mad revolutionary in a novel that ripples with risk and gripping adventure. Throughout his escapades, Forester's hero remains resourceful and courageous.

In this, the final Horatio Hornblower adventure, C.S. Forester throws his hero into one of the most challenging missions yet. Upon discovering highly confidential papers dispatched by Bonaparte, Hornblower sets off to enlighten the Admiralty about his game-changing, new findings. Troubled after having been informed of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve's escape into Spain, they welcome Horatio's news and send him off on a high-priority assignment that they believe will lead to England's victory over Napoleon.

Her Majesty's ship Sutherland is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, he looks set to take on commando raids, hurricanes at sea, and Napoleons's gun batteries.

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the 'Terror of the Mediterranean' becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.

Ramage hopes to enjoy a well-deserved leave when he receives new orders: Commission and take command of the Dido - a massive 74-gun ship that carries enough weight of metal to destroy a frigate in a single broadside, or sweep a ship's decks clear of men. Accompanied by the courageous crew of the Calypso, Ramage ventures to sea once again - bound for the West Indies where he faces the challenge of commanding this massive weapon of war.

Roman drame. Huis clos. Une fille et des hommes costauds face à des soldats de l'Empire et à des policiers du Royaume. Tout se passe en une nuit terrible sur un Rhône en crue. "La table du roi", c'est ce rocher à fleur d'eau, au milieu du fleuve : là où patron Mathias a amarré sa barge alors que Napoléon vient de débarquer à Golfe-Juan et monte vers la capitale. Quelques heures seulement qui décideront du sort de ces bateliers aux prises avec l'Histoire.

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe, devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

Die Gefährten Karge, Anselmo und Anna haben sich eben an ihr neues Leben in Ceuta unter Heinrichs Schutz gewöhnt, als eine Depesche von König Johann eintrifft: Karge soll einen neuen Stützpunkt für die portugiesische Krone finden! Doch bevor das Segelabenteuer beginnt, muss Anselmo sein Geschäft einem Tollpatsch überlassen, Anna bekommt Besuch aus ihrer Kindheit, ein neuer Mönch tritt in das Leben der Freunde und alte Bekannte aus Venedig tauchen wieder auf. Gemeinsam erleben sie eine aufregende Entdeckungsfahrt, auf der Suche nach der Insel im Atlantik.

A sinking British ship, her crew and passengers—men and women alike—ruthlessly murdered at the hands of a French privateer. This is the nightmare Ramage and the crew of the Calypso stumble upon while engaged in a sweep for freebooters in the waters off Jamaica. Supported by his men in a thirst for righteous vengeance, Ramage sets sail to bring the murderers to justice.

The youngest captain in His Majesty's Navy, with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Diamond Rock. The mission seems humdrum: barricade the French within Fort Royal. But sent to sea in the Juno with a crew grown restless and undisciplined under the prior commmand of a drunk, Ramage realizes his vessel may not be up to battle with the French.

The lieutenant is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig Triton. But like the rest of the Navy, Triton's crew has mutinied. Sympathizing with some of their complaints, Ramage also knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz, and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat.

Marcelo, un joven buzo aficionado, busca en las aguas heladas de la Patagonia el lugar exacto del hundimiento de la Swift, una corbeta británica del siglo XVIII. Cuando la persona que más sabe del naufragio en todo el país aparece asesinada con un mensaje extraño en el regazo, Marcelo descubre que su inocente pasatiempo constituye una amenaza enorme para cierta gente. No sabe a quién se enfrenta, pero sí que compite con ellos por reflotar un secreto que, después de dos siglos bajo el mar, podría cambiar la historia de aquella parte remota del planeta.

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.

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.