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On Christmas Eve, 1972, the commercial fishing vessel, LADY-FAME was struck and capsized by a fifty foot rogue wave while crossing the Humboldt Bay bar. Contemporary artist, Peter Santino was a crew member and wrote fifty thousand words during the months following, describing every thought and action that occurred, with no embellishment or clever trickery in a attempt to create a record of Truth. Now, some forty years later, and after re-reading Moby-Dick,...
62) Tears of the Sea
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When LeRae indulges her fascination with the forbidden sand walkers, she discovers more than danger in the shallow waters.
Pressured by her family and friends to stay in the safety of the deep ocean, LeRae longs to explore the beauty of the shallow waters...and the mysterious people who live on the beach. One day, when danger threatens the safety of the sand walkers she has come to care for, LeRae must decide if she will listen to tradition or forge...
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The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea." It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell's best selling and most well known novel. Russell noted in a preface, the novel 'found its first...
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The following chapters and sailing stories are an amalgamation of some research, of this author's personal experiences, and embellished by my extrapolated imagination feeding off my life experiences. Where truth ends and imagination takes over is up to the reader to determine. However, this book is mostly fiction. Some of the characters in the stories are real, but under advice I have changed names and made them fit the venue into which they are placed....
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Alan Lewrie is now commander of HMS Jester, an 18-gun sloop. Lewrie sails into Corsica only to receive astonishing orders: he must lure his archenemy, French commander Guillaume Choundas, into battle and personally strike the malevolent spymaster dead. With Horatio Nelson as his squadron commander on one hand and a luscious courtesan who spies for the French on the other, Lewrie must pull out all the stops if he's going to live up to his own reputation...
66) Matelot
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Extrait : "Un enfant habillé en ange, - c'est-à-dire demi-nu, avec une fine petite chemise et, aux épaules, les deux ailes d'un pigeon blanc... C'était au beau soleil d'un mois de juin méridional, dans l'extrême Provence confinant à l'Italie. Il marchait, à une procession de Fête-Dieu, en compagnie de trois autres en costume pareil. Les trois autres anges étaient blonds et cheminaient les yeux baissés, comme prenant au sérieux tout cela."...
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Excerpt: ""Mr. Maxwell Kane!" The announcement was made by Nick Carter's valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his master's study with a gesture as nearly approaching a flourish as any in which he ever permitted himself to indulge. Joseph had a wholesome respect for millionaires, and many a one of them came at one time and another to the detective for consultation; but it was rarely that Joseph admitted such a one as Maxwell Kane. It was a name...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this edited G. A. Henty collection:
"Under Drake's Flag" is the tale of the fight between the great empires of Spain and Britain for the supremacy on the seas and oceans. Tale is told from the perspective of a young boy who, along with a few friends, finds himself in the service of famous Francis Drake.
"Chapter of Adventures: Through the Bombardment of Alexandria" is tale of the young midshipman, Jack Robson, who works...
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"A Season to Remember" is an exciting tale of great adventure and hardship - written with much imagination and experience. A wonderful trip with the author into a world far from the mundane. From nature in all its glory to nature in all its cruelness - the sea. Even though he believes he is searching for Doug, Timothy realizes he is searching for more than a friend. During that search, he faces a world of loneliness, raunchy, unsavory charactors and...
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«El viejo marinero se arremangó la camisa y empezó. Lo que querían era conocer una historia que, aunque no estaba escrita en las páginas de un libro, lo estaba en la piel de un hombre, y eso para él también era literatura.»
El beso de la aguja, tinta y sangre mezcladas para dar vida a una persona que ya no volvería a ser la misma. La magia del tatuaje, la perpetua marca de aquello que merece ser recordado. Veintitrés veces se sometió...
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When a strange convoy from the Central state of Idria appears to break a military truce, Commander Bryce Jenkins of the Kavarian Navy can't resist the call to serve his country and captain the Felnought submarine.
But his good friend and down to earth second man, Lieutenant Lachlan Chase, suspects there is something more to the strange happenings going on board the recently relaunched submarine. An inconvenient suspicion that plays on the mind of...
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Excerpt: "On the afternoon of this same day of Tuesday, October 31, Helga having gone to her cabin, I stepped on deck to smoke a pipe-for my pipe was in my pocket when I ran to the lifeboat, and Captain Bunting had given me a square of tobacco to cut up. We had dined at one. During the course of the meal Helga and I had said but very little, willing that the Captain should have the labour of talking. Nor did he spare us. His tongue, as sailors say,...
74) Siempre el norte
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Mikel Larramendi tiene 27 años y es de Hondarribia, una pequeña población de Guipúzcoa, antaño eminentemente pesquera, de la que siempre ha renegado. Ha terminado recientemente su doctorado sobre la ballena de los vascos, tras sus estudios en Ciencias del Mar, y es reclutado como parte de una expedición científica que partirá de Terranova hasta el Ártico canadiense. El fin de dicho viaje es estudiar la influencia del deshielo en el desplazamiento...
75) The Last Hit
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A group of pirates, a crew impossible of our days and our seas, take part on an operation in the mid of Mediterranean. A mysterious character seemed calculated all good while police, coasters guards and anti-drugs departments are ready to stop these criminals traffics active since much time. The story, covered by a sad humor, is heavy and with deads. Anyway, the real trophy is unknown yet.
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
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Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire...
78) An Ocean Tragedy
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The pursuit of the schooner yacht Shark by the Bride, the yacht of the mad Sir Wilfred, is seagoing writing at its best. Russell's evocation of both calms and storms at sea, and the management of the yacht are educated and expert. Sir Wilfred's wife has run off with the dashing Colonel Hope-Kennedy, and Sir Wilfred means to get her back. This isn't going to be just a confrontation between cuckold and cuckolder, Sir Wilfred has armed the Bride with...
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Excerpt: "I had passed from the deck, where I slept, to the cabin in too great a hurry to notice the weather. Now, reaching the poop, I stood a moment or two to look around, being in my way as concerned about the direction of the wind as Vanderdecken himself. It still blew fresh, but the heavens lay open among the clouds that had thickened their bulk into great drooping shining bosoms, as though indeed the crystalline blue under which they sailed...
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Excerpt: "On the morning of October 21, in a year that one need not count very far back to arrive at, I was awakened from a light sleep into which I had fallen after a somewhat restless night by a sound as of thunder some little distance off, and on going to my bedroom window to take a view of the weather I beheld so wild and forbidding a prospect of sea and sky that the like of it is not to be imagined. The heavens were a dark, stooping, universal...
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