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Sea of grey: an Alan Lewrie naval adventure (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series. #10.)
Par Dewey Lambdin. 2002
Captain Alan Lewrie sets sail aboard HMS Proteus for the West Indies, where General Toussaint L'Ouverture leads a slave rebellion…
in France's Saint Domingue colony. Lewrie patrols for privateers, French warships, and anything suspicious. Sequel to "King's Captain". Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2002. (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series ; 10)Sea story: a novel
Par Sam Llewellyn. 1987
Multimillion-dollar yachts compete in a sailing race that lasts eight months and takes them from the United States to South…
Africa, Australia and Argentina. The competitors battle each other, their shipmates, the weather, and the sea. Strong language. c1987.Saltwater summer
Par Roderick Haig-Brown. 2000
Seventeen-year-old Don Morgan has bought himself a 32-foot west coast salmon troller. Now he is free to fish the entire…
length of the BC coast. With his friend Tubby Miller, he sets off on his adventure, but things don't unfold quite as he had hoped. Don soon realizes that he has a lot to learn, not just about commercial fishing, but about growing up. For senior high readers. 1948. c2000.Sail
Par James Patterson, Howard Roughan. 2009
As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is…
lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish without a trace and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009, c2008.Sacred stone (The oregon Files Ser. #2)
Par Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2004
In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed a 50,000 year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone,…
which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. The astounding find places him in the crossfire of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone - and prevent the outbreak of World War III. c2004.Sacred hunger
Par Barry Unsworth. 1992
A tale of the mid-eighteenth-century slave trade. In 1752, William Kemp has a cargo ship built to transport slaves from…
Africa to the West Indies. Shipboard life is terrifying. The ship is becalmed, the crew and slaves sicken and die, the ship's doctor leads a mutiny, and the remaining crew and slaves find shelter on the uninhabited coast of Florida. Some violence. Booker Prize 1992.From the age of eight, Roberta Bondar knew she wanted to be an astronaut. In January 1992 she made Canadian…
history when she became the first Canadian woman, and first neurologist, to go into space on board Discovery. The story of her journey to become a leading astronaut is a fascinating tale of dedication, commitment, and courage. Grades 4-7. 2004.Rites of passage (Sea trilogy ; #1)
Par William Golding. 1980
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather…
back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew. Followed by "Close quarters" (DC31504). Junior and senior high. 1980 Man Booker Prize. 1980. (Sea trilogy ; 1)Rising tides (Quinn brothers trilogy. #2.)
Par Nora Roberts. 1998
In Sea Swept, the three Quinn brothers returned to their home on Maryland's eastern shore to care for their adopted…
brother Seth. Because Cam and Phillip are now involved in other matters, it falls to Ethan to attend to Seth. Ethan also spends time with Grace, a longtime area resident whom he has always loved. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. Followed by "Inner Harbor". (Quinn brothers trilogy ; 2) 1998.Richard Bolitho, Midshipman (Richard Bolitho novels. #1.)
Par Alexander Kent. 1975
Only sixteen but already a veteran of four years in the king's navy, Richard Bolitho joins his second ship, the…
Gorgon, in 1771. Its mission - to investigate the brutal slave trade on Africa's west coast - proves much more perilous than he expected. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger'. 1975. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 1)Reefs and shoals: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series. #18)
Par Dewey Lambdin. 2012
Captain Alan Lewrie of the Royal Navy is ordered to head to Cuba and Spanish Florida to search for French…
and Spanish privateers who have been preying on British merchantmen, and to determine whether the privateers have been getting aid from the Americans. Sequel to "The invasion year". 2012.Relentless pursuit (Adam Bolitho. #2.)
Par Alexander Kent. 2006
Off the coast of Africa, 1815. Captain Adam Bolitho still mourns the death of his uncle, Richard, but heeds the…
call to duty. The British admiralty sends him into southern waters to halt slave running. Sequel to "Second to none". 2006. (Adam Bolitho ; 2)Rapt: roman (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (domaine Etranger) Ser. #Vol. 6072631)
Par Robin Cook, Michel Ganstel. 2003
Au large des Açores, un mystérieux signal venu des profondeurs de l'Atlantique amène une équipe de plongeurs et d'océanographes à…
découvrir un phénomène que les scientifiques ne parviennent pas à expliquer. Et qui pourrait bien changer tout ce que nous croyons savoir de la vie sur la Terre. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, quelques descriptions de violence et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2005, c2000. Titre uniforme: Abduction.Ramage and the drum beat (Lord Ramage novels. #2.)
Par Dudley Pope. 2010
This volume takes the brave Lord Ramage to the new world where he becomes embroiled in a series of electrifying…
sea battles and hazardous political shenanigans. Sequel to "Ramage"; followed by "Ramage and the Freebooters". 2010.Ramage and the Saracens (Lord Ramage novels. #17)
Par Dudley Pope. 1988
1806. Aboard Calypso in the Mediterranean, Captain Ramage receives orders to track down and destroy Barbary Coast pirates, called Saracens,…
who are kidnapping slaves and terrorizing Sicilian fishing villages. Ramage also attempts to rescue hundreds of the Saracens’ Italian prisoners. Sequel to “Ramage at Trafalgar”. Followed by “Ramage & the Dido”. Descriptions of violence. 2002, c1988. (Lord Ramage novels ; 17)Ramage's prize (Lord Ramage novels. #5.)
Par Dudley Pope. 1974
Lieutenant Lord Ramage of the Royal Navy, aristocrat, adventurer, and romantic lover, confronts a secret plot that threatens to destroy…
the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. Sequel to "Governor Ramage, R.N.", followed by "Ramage and the guillotine". 1975, c1974. (Lord Ramage novels ; 5)Ramage's challenge: a novel (Lord Ramage novels. #15)
Par Dudley Pope. 1985
The future looks bleak and loveless for Captain Nicholas Ramage R.N., with his new and beautiful wife missing at sea…
and possibly dead. This does not concern the Admiralty, as they give him sealed orders "To be opened off Gibraltar". The war against the French must go on and his assignment is to effect the rescue of a number of British admirals, generals and aristocrats who are being held by Bonaparte as hostages. Sequel to "Ramage's trial", followed by "Ramage at Trafalgar". 1985.Ramage's devil (Lord Ramage novels. #13)
Par Dudley Pope. 1996
With the Treaty of Amiens signed, and the Calypso about to be paid off, Ramage and his new bride can…
at last honeymoon in France as guests of the Count of Rennes. But Napoleon - his armies restocked - has all foreigners and French royalists arrested and sent to Devil's Island, the French prison colony. Ramage escapes capture, but the danger is enormous as Ramage collects useful information for the Admiralty and plans a daring rescue. Sequel to "Ramage & the renegades", followed by "Ramage's trial". 1996.Ramage and the freebooters (Lord Ramage novels. #3)
Par Dudley Pope. 1996
Lieutenant Lord Ramage is summoned to the Admiralty, where the First Lord gives him command of the brig Triton and…
three sealed despatches addressed to the admirals off Brest and Cadiz and in the Caribbean. Sequel to "Ramage & the drumbeat", followed by "Governor Ramage R.N.". 1996.Ramage and the rebels (Lord Ramage novels. #9)
Par Dudley Pope. 1996
Two days out from Jamaica on a routine patrol against privateers, Captain Ramage and his ship Calypso come upon a…
sight that horrifies even his battle-hardened crew. Sequel to "Ramage's mutiny", followed by "Ramage touch". 1996.