Títulos en Aventuras marinas

The Iliad is an epic Greek poem written by philosopher Homer, and is considered one of the oldest pieces of western literature still in existence. The story takes place during the last weeks of the 10-year Trojan War, with a focus on the quarrels between King Agamemnon and the legendary warrior Achilles. However, this tale's most famous scene is when the Greek's give a gift to the Trojans of a large wooden horse, but one that is filled with soldiers, that allows the Greeks to infiltrate the high walls of the city of Troy.

A standalone story in Kevin J. Anderson’s Terra Incognita universe. What happens when a close-minded prester is confronted with a mythical creature that his faith will not let him believe in?

Planetary geologist Dr. Micah Clarke, his nine-year-old daughter Faye, and his assistant Catalina Abril are abducted at gunpoint and forced to join a megalomaniac’s paramilitary expedition down an Amazon tributary ruled by murderous pirates and cannibal tribes. The goal—recover a meteorite capable of providing clean energy for the world. But prehistoric terrors lurk around every bend in the river. Swarms of six-inch titan ants, mega piranha, and a 70-foot Titanoboa tear a bloody swath through the flotilla.

A series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings, the injuries are more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac. Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature. Exhausted and traumatized, her claims that the beast is a Helicoprion are dismissed. With little help from the police department, Luke and Elise form an unlikely alliance that puts them face-to-face with a violent man-eating shark, and its terrifying reason for existing.

Coral Amherst is the middle child of a wealthy family, with fingers throughout the politics and laws of the magical Dalebloods and the Republic they lead. Skill and connections alike have propelled her to the highest ranks of the Republic’s Navy. Now, duty inexorably drags her into a mission to learn the fate of a long-lost magical city, once home to many of the people the Dalebloods rule. Storms of dark magic drove the Seablood from their ancient city and to the shores of the Republic—and those same storms now assail the Republic itself!

The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives… Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries... until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich. Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own...

A chill-swept classic of the sea, A Misfit Ghost unspools like a sworn statement from the wardroom of a U.S. Coast Survey schooner. Newly assigned to the Eagre—a yacht with a tragic past—Lieutenant King meets the ship’s silent resident: an elderly mariner who appears in the port cabin...

THE CROWN CALLS IT PRIVATEERING. CAPTAIN TYLER CALLS IT TREASON.1705, Port Royal. British Navy Captain William Tyler returns from patrol expecting a promotion. Instead, he finds his command stripped and his reputation under siege.On his final mission, Tyler didn't just find enemy shipshe...

Dreizehn Jahre war er in Haft, nun wird Paulus Olsen aus humanitären Gründen vorzeitig entlassen. Einst war er als Seebrückenteufel gefürchtet. Drei Frauen hat er auf dem Gewissen. Immer wurden ihre Leichen auf einer Seebrücke gefunden, und immer trugen sie eine Teufelsmaske. Seine Taten bereut er zutiefst. Die letzten Wochen seines Lebens möchte er bei der Frau Ruhe finden, die ihn seit Jahren als selbsternannter „Engel der Gefangenen" betreut.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. Jules Verne's classic science fiction story 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea tells the great tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus. In 1866 a strange and unknown sea monster is sighted by ships and an ocean liner is attacked. An expedition prepares in New York, to find and destroy the menacing creature. The 20,000 of the title refers to an overall distance traveled under the sea, rather than an impossible measure of descent.

Captured by pirates and brought to the west coast of Africa, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in seventeenth-century England. His only hope of returning is to work hard and be awarded freedom by his Portuguese captors—a freedom he is consistently denied. As he is moved farther and farther inland, away from the coast and any hope of a boat back to England, Battell’s dreams of freedom begin to dwindle. Finally, taking matters into his own hands, he escapes and takes sanctuary among the Jaqqas, a tribe of cannibalistic warriors lead by the sinister Lord of Darkness.

Erlebe ein episches Seefahrtsdrama voller Spannung und klassischer Abenteuer, das dich sanft in den Schlaf wiegt! Tauche ein in die aufgewühlte Welt der Bounty, wo strenge Disziplin, brodelnder Aufruhr und das Streben nach Freiheit auf offener See aufeinandertreffen. Benjamin Werner liest dir diese packende Erzählung vor, in der Mut, Intrigen und die raue Schönheit der Ozeane zu einer zeitlosen Geschichte verschmelzen. Perfekt für Liebhaber klassischer Geschichten, die beim Einschlafen Hilfe und atemberaubende Abenteuer suchen.

Sonny Lowe once traveled the world captaining a successful research vessel. These days, he and his crew get by with fishing and occasionally smuggling in the North Sea. One day, they’re chartered by a mysterious marine biologist to investigate rumors of a rediscovered prehistoric fish in the wilds of the Norwegian Sea.

From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La...

"An Experiment in Misery" in a story similar to "The Men in the Storm" except that it focuses on one character, and a new fellow traveler called the Assassin, who struggle for warmth and a place for the night. The main character stops first at a saloon for free soup with a beer, where he meets the Assassin. The Assassin accosts the man seeking a few cents for a room.

Marc Pastor torna a sorprendre amb una novel·la que respira l’exotisme dels millors relats d’aventures. Bioko, l’illa remota del golf de Guinea que dona nom a la novel·la, l’any 1887 encara és un presidi enorme on es confinen els homes a qui es castiga sense futur. Aquí és on destinen Martí Corvo, un soldat llibertí i bevedor, amb l’esperança que serà el candidat ideal per un entorn tan cru. 

Eine tote Frau in der Markgrafenheide gibt der Polizei Rätsel auf. Hat der „Würger von Rostock" ein weiteres Mal zugeschlagen? Bereits vor Jahren jagte Hauptkommissar Kai Brötler einen eiskalten Serienkiller, der die Region in Atem hielt – seine Opfer waren ebenfalls junge Frauen. Jetzt holt die Vergangenheit den Ermittler ein. Diesmal jedoch braucht er die Hilfe von Oberkommissarin Frauke Eigen.

Hauptkommissarin Fenja Korn wird von Berlin nach Sylt strafversetzt. Kaum auf der Nordseeinsel angekommen, erschüttert ein Brand die Küste: Leuchtfeuerwärter Hark Petersen kommt in den Flammen ums Leben. Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin. Doch gemeinsam mit ihrem neuen Kollegen Hauke Sand entdeckt Fenja Korn am ausgebrannten Leuchtturm Hinweise, die nicht ins Bild passen.

It was an unprovoked attack, a deliberate act of aggression. When Vice Admiral Mike Brannon of the US Navy received word that the wreck of the Sharkfin had been found, with a gaping hole in its stern, he could only conclude that the Soviets had, without warning, attacked and destroyed a US nuclear submarine. He could not let the incident pass without retaliation. Yet whatever steps he took, he risked leading the two superpowers into a state of war.