The Christmas Wreck (1886) is not a typical Christmas story. Stockton reminds us there's no use being in a hurry for a good wind or for Christmas, they'll both come when they're ready. Old Silas tells his passenger a tale as they are waylaid with...
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The first book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series.
Tells of the rise in the 1780s of Nathanial Drinkwater to the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy. Prior to promotion he saves a young seaman from the brutal attentions of a depraved midshipman and...
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: his early exploits, being a curious and intimate relation of his tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his Journal and pages from his Ship's Log, and here put into complete...
In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig HELLEBORE. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral Nelson, pursuing the French fleet to Egypt, sends HELLEBORE to the Red Sea with an urgent warning to...
A tale of strange adventures, befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby," upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa, via the Panama canal.
Teenaged Tod goes in search of his missing older brother. He takes a job as a cabin...
Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael, puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle, when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their...
Midshipman...
Nautical pirate adventure, written at the turn of the 20th century, by the author of The Wind-Jammers and Bahama...
In a storm the Arran Dhu is on its beam ends when the Golden...
An epic tale, circa early 1800's, of Homer Whitman, Maine seaman, a captain of an American merchantman captured by Barbary pirates, sold into captivity,...