Títulos en Aventuras marinas

1774: Rob Courtney is growing up in Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay, a trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, and has always dreamed of going to sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited, and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by its charms and makes friends with a group of fast-living men and ends up in terrible debt.

Favian Markham is a rising young American officer during the War of 1812. As commander of the small, slow brig Experiment, he must break the British blockade and take his outgunned vessel on a daring raid into the Narrow Seas of England. On his desperate journey he faces duels, rivalries, ambitious politicians, yardarm-to-yardarm combat, and the deadly beauty of a foreign courtesan. Yet his greatest battle is not with the enemy, but with his own divided nature….

Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to, being as he is the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly minted congressman. Jack finds himself off to a promising start, however, when he’s given command of the merchant vessel Abigail bound from Philadelphia for Barbados. But even before the dock lines are cast off, the voyage, which should have been routine, begins to look like a stormy passage indeed.

September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Posing as a passenger, Dillman is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line to keep an eye out for petty crimes. But after some uneventful days aboard, the ship’s blueprints are stolen and then a body is found. As Dillman works to get to the bottom of the crimes, he makes an unusual friend, first-class passenger Genevieve Masefield, and the two uncover secrets aboard the ship that prove explosive.

Devastated by the loss of his family, Gideon Markham has retreated to his ship and the life of the sea. Heir to a privateering tradition, he brings his schooner into the Gulf of Mexico to wage unremitting war on the British who threaten America’s freedom. But the puritanical Gideon finds the Gulf a strange and threatening place, and soon he must face Jean Laffite’s pirates, a mutiny, an attack by Red Stick Creeks, and a British invasion…none of which he finds as baffling and alarming as Maria-Anna de Suarez.

L'arrogante marchese di Halifax ha rapito Mary di Wentort, la donna amata dal capitano William Mac-Lellan che è immediatamente partito per salvarla sulla sua nave, la Tuonante. Con il capitano Mac-Lellan c'è la sua fedele ciurma tra cui l'imbattibile artigliere Testa di Pietra e il giovane gabbiere Piccolo Fiocco. È l'inizio di un lungo inseguimento all'insegna di burrasche e arrembaggi mentre sullo sfondo scorre sanguinosa la guerra d'indipendenza americana.

Cosa accadrebbe se "la Natura, a titolo di esperimento, riportasse nel suo seno due boccioli cresciuti in serra” e preservati da ogni duro contatto con la realtà? Cosa ne sarebbe di due bambini cresciuti senza sapere che cosa sono nascita e morte, e costretti poi a scoprire la vita da soli? Questo libro, reso di nuovo celebre oggi dal film che ne è stato tratto, è, per alcuni versi, difficile e crudele. Ma per altri versi l'autore descrive, con la poesia del suo cuore irlandese, una bellezza incontaminata che oggi possiamo soltanto sognare.

Punk’s War reveals the inner workings of the US Navy as only an insider can. An authentic and riveting thriller, it is a highly acclaimed novel of a fighter pilot’s experience in the era just before 9/11. As the US military enters another postconflict period, the themes of leadership during crisis and accomplishing the mission make Punk’s War more relevant than ever.

This rousing sea adventure follows New England boy Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain’s son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov.

The American Revolution is throwing up a new breed of hero, Yankee privateers who dare the might of the Royal Navy to slash at British commerce. Foremost among them are the three Markham brothers, Jehu, Josiah, and Malachi, who link their destiny to that of their young nation and seek their fortune in the cannon’s mouth. 

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the rough times they’ve been weathering at home. As they set sail coddled in unaccustomed luxury on the Coral Dynasty, things below deck are a little less sunny for the ship’s physician.

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral...

Discover the top 10 bestselling Cornish Midwives series! Midwife Jess knows she’ll never have a baby of her own, but she’s determined to still be a mum. So Jess decides to foster, providing love and support for children who desperately need it – something Jess never had as a child when she...

From the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish Midwife. Two years after losing her husband, Finn, Lexie Turner is still struggling. She knows she needs to move on, but she has no idea where to begin. Packing up her life in London, Lexie heads to the coastal town of Port Kara to spend the...

Pursued by a Mexican billionaire deluded by Aztec visions, Dee and his friends chart a course that includes lost Spanish galleons, stolen art, a trip across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and some shocking revelations about the past and the present.

An emotional novel about finding the courage to follow your heart, always having hope, and the magic of falling in love as the snow falls, from top 10 Bestselling author, Jo Bartlett. A secret love… As winter descends on the coastal town of Port Agnes, midwife Toni Samuels’ mood is as dark...

Alla ricerca di un tesoro nascosto in un'isola deserta, la nave pirata Regina dei mari affonda ancora prima di giungere alla costa. Al naufragio sopravvivono solo i quindici uomini che prima della tragedia si erano ammutinati al capitano. Ognuno di loro possiede un indizio per raggiungere il tesoro, ma il percorso si rivela più pericoloso del previsto: uno per uno, gli ammutinati muoiono in circostanze misteriose prima di raggiungere lo scrigno. Il tesoro è davvero maledetto o qualcuno di loro sta architettando un complotto per mettere le mani sul bottino?

Cosa avrebbe da dire un girino che abita uno stagno all'arrogante che cerca in tutti i modi di contaminare l'acqua? E cosa pensano davvero le acciughe sui banconi dei bar liguri di questa tra- dizione alimentare? Com'è, insomma, la vita in questo mondo alla rovescia in cui gli animali e le sirene parlano, si lamentano dell'uomo, lo sfidano e lo contrastano?

Gli incredibili viaggi di Gulliver alla scoperta di nuovi mondi, in lingua inglese! Una collana di Classici della letteratura in lingua originale, per giovani desiderosi di imparare una nuova lingua, in forma ridotta per renderli più facili. Pubblicati come audiolibri per permettere di apprendere in modo ancora più semplice la pronuncia delle parole.

"Veridica relazione degli strani eventi accaduti nella nostra città l'inverno 1888, così come da me registrati..." Con queste parole, cariche di mistero e aspettativa, inizia il documento che il narratore dice di aver trovato nel cassetto segreto di un mobile di famiglia. E ben più che strani sono gli eventi che si svolgono in una ricca e tranquilla città di mare affacciata sul Baltico negli anni in cui la navigazione a vapore ha ormai sostituito i grandi velieri.